On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 11:00 -0400, Stewart Dean wrote:
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Scott Silva wrote:
What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a user's mail?
I usually just rsync the /home directories to another server. The inital sync can take a while, but it gets faster after there is a base to work from.
...and it's much less painful if you're using maildir instead of mbox!
-DaveI have to wonder. I have a mailserver that I do a bootable complete image copy of with all files and O/S in two hours to an Ultrium-2 tape, 95 GB. When I switch to maildir, I will go from some 25,000 mbox files to 2.5 to 3 million files...I can't believe that isn't going to hurt and will force me into incrementals.....
One possibility is to just wait for dbox with multiple-messages-per-file feature. I can't really say when it'll be ready (or when I'll even start implementing it), but I know I want to use it myself and some companies have also recently been asking about it.