Re: [Dovecot] Backup Maildir

Gabe Granger wrote:

Hi All,

I'm currently doing nightly full backups of /home. I'm not sure if a
full back up is the best way to do backups. I know with my fileserver i do weekly full backup and daily incremental which would file on those type of files. I guess my question to the group is, how do you guys backup Maildir? whats the best way of doing it?

I backup the machine using Rsync, set to move any changed or deleted files to a date-stamped folder. That way I always have a live tree of the last backup (effectively a full backup) and daily directories of changes, without the network overhead.

-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net