On 09.02.2020 19:08, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
Hi,
On 10/2/20 4:59 am, Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay wrote:
What I do:
1 - I ran a maildirlock command to my mail folder 2 - I then rsync the folder where my maildirs are, as well as the indexes, to a remote location
If rsync is not fast... then how about doing a snapshot and then rsync off the snapshot? (I do rsync over lvm snapshots to back up file systems cleanly) and, btw, perform file system dumps [ufsdump / ufsrestore like, but dump and restore on Linux] of *non-mounted* backup file systems fwiw.
That's a good idea - In my case rsync is super fast, 1-2 min tops, so I can afford the lock for that time. But I surely should check more about snapshots.
I have other rsyncs that happen via rsnapshot during the day, I don't worry about snapshotting them though, but I probably should....
3 - I tar.gz the daily backup 4 - I kill the maildirlock process
I also use replication of my server so that I keep getting mail when my main server isn't available.
You mean backup mx?
Yes. It is a work of beauty that thing :) I remember how cool it was to see mail being replicated when both servers are up and one responding for mail when one of the servers is down.
Best,
Francis