Re: [Dovecot] Any suggestions for backing up an imap server and whould maildir or dbox be better than mbox?

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.

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.