Email Server Backup Strategy

[Durga Prasad Malyala]

On Sun, Feb 9, 2020, 23:38 Andrew McGlashan <
andrew.mcglashan at affinityvision.com.au> wrote:

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> Hi,
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> On 10/2/20 4:59 am, Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay wrote:
> > What I do:
> >
> > 1 - I ran a maildirlock command to my mail folder 2 - I then rsync
> > the folder where my maildirs are, as well as the indexes, to a
> > remote location
>
> If rsync is not fast... then how about doing a snapshot and then rsync
> off the snapshot?  (I do rsync over lvm snapshots to back up file
> systems cleanly) and, btw, perform file system dumps [ufsdump /
> ufsrestore like, but dump and restore on Linux] of *non-mounted*
> backup file systems fwiw.
>
> I have other rsyncs that happen via rsnapshot during the day, I don't
> worry about snapshotting them though, but I probably should....
>
> > 3 - I tar.gz the daily backup 4 - I kill the maildirlock process
> >
> > I also use replication of my server so that I keep getting mail
> > when my main server isn't available.
>
> You mean backup mx?
>
> > As for postfix, I backup the database once a week, since it doesn't
> > get changed that often.
> >
> > Hope that helps!
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Francis
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 09.02.2020 18:26, Esteban L wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Was thinking it would be wise to backup my server, in case
> >> anything "bad" ever happened, so that I could quickly get up to
> >> speed.
> >>
> >> 1. clone the whole drive -- which might be the best to ensure I
> >> keep the whole system working.
> >>
> >> 2. But, what about, if I just wanted to backup my Email server
> >> components? Postfix - which I think is just config files, and
> >> Dovecot - I think there is a doveadm backup for doing such
> >> things.
> >>
> >> What do you guys do, recommend for backups??
> >>
> >> Thanks
>
> Cheers
>
> - --
> Andrew McGlashan
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What do you guys do to backup mdbox mails with SiS enabled?
DP

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