On Tuesday 02 May 2006 20:02, Jan Kundrát wrote:
Glenn Davy wrote:
forgive my nievness, and also for top posting - as Ive lost the OP - seeing as someones raised the issue of backup ideas and tips - is there anything fundamentally wrong with rsync to another (either local or remote location)?
Well, there might be one issue, IMHO - what happens if you're backing up a huge mailbox (say over 1GB) fortunately my clients data is still all quite small - the entire set wouldnt be half that yet.. and a message from the beginning gets deleted)? ... but yes what if. I was wondering about that. I took mine offline for the initial rsync (which runs accross the pacific), and now only changes are backed up - which is quite quick - I guess its good luck that this hasnt happened yet, only a matter of time though I'd say that you'll have to employ the same locking scheme as you've configured Dovecot to do and then you should be pretty safe. thanks - I'll look into this - I havent given it much thought I'm not sure about the performance (and that's the whole mailbox-maildir flame)...
I'm not a backup guru, though :)
Cheers, -jkt