Hi,
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI schrieb:
From: Götz Reinicke
Hi,
we run a Red Hat EL 5.2 mailserver with dovecot as the imap server. Mails are stored in mbox format and there are about 134GB of mail.
At the moment users copy their importent mail to their workstation accounts wich are backed up nightly.
What are your suggestions to back up the mails not copied? Thanks for any comments.
You can simply rsync the whole mail store. Gets pretty efficient after the first run. Or take a look at rdiff-backup if you need to store previous copies.
thanks for the idea! I'll try it. I've one more question: What will happen to files which are locked or opend; e.g. if users are still logged in?
BTW: Dose changing the mailbox format from mbox to Maildir or dbox dose have any advantages?
I don't think it makes any difference in this case.
I thought about the filelocking, so if the mailbox is one big file backing up things will be different from backing up a lot of smaler files... But may be rsync dose handel this also in a different way?
Thanks once more
Regards
Götz
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