Hi Alex,
I mirror the mailboxes as follows:
rsync -avt --log-file=$log_file /home/vmail/ 10.0.0.x:/home/vmail I run it in a script for e,g every 1 min. By doing so if an email is deleted on the live server it still remain on the backup server. Then I give each mail file a retention period of n days so that it automatically gets deleted from the backup server.
CoolAtt
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:57:15 +0100 From: alexh@boxed.no To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Anyone successfully setup Continous Backup of mailboxes using rsync ?
On 28.01.2010 09:07, CoolAtt NNA wrote:
Hi All..
Am working on continous backup of mailboxes using rsync(for e.g by running rsync every 2 min)
Things gets more complicated when users create Subfolders in INBOX , SENT , etc..
If anyone among you did that plz guide& advise.
You don't state much on what this runs on, but I do snapshot backups of my IMAP server consistently by using LVM, and just match my cronjob to snapshot it at a few given times, mounting the snapshot and backing up with rdiff-backup.
Very simple, very easy, and very realiable. :)
Thanks CoolAtt
-A
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