On 29 Oct 2008, at 16:02, Scott Silva wrote:
on 10-29-2008 12:47 PM Dave McGuire spake the following:
On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Scott Silva wrote:
What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a user's mail?
I usually just rsync the /home directories to another server. The inital sync can take a while, but it gets faster after there is a base to work
from....and it's much less painful if you're using maildir instead of
mbox!-DaveMbox syncs fairly quickly also. Rsync is very good at working with
large text files like mbox, even if users purge stuff from the middle.But since he did show Maildir was in use, I left out also backing up /var/spool/mail/* for the inboxes on a default mbox installation.
Yeah, the maildir line was mostly why I put the dovecot -n there.
Do you think rsync will be easier on my servers than tarball/bzip2/scp ?
Thanks for the help, -Neil.