On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 13:23 +0000, Hugo Monteiro wrote:
Jochen Kaechelin wrote:
what's the prefered way to backup users mail? i use doevcot shipping with debian/etch an maildir.
thanx
Have you considered Amanda or Bacula?
www.amanda.org www.bacula.org
IMHO, if you're going to use tapes, just buy ArcServe. I've used it for years on Netware, and was unable to get it to work with Debian (so I'd suggest rsync/mysqldump to a supported box). Now I've been using bacula, and it's just not a polished solution. I'm no *nix newbie, but just setting up a rotation was a headache, and the expiration doesn't seem to work right. Missing a job means you have to go back and start pruning - and I still don't have a proper "last day of week is weekly, unless it's the last day of month" rotation - and that's with one tape, daily, FULL, backups.
I have been able to restore from it, though due to setup issues, I've again had to do more work than necessary. It seems the backup database gets HUGE (possibly due to lack of incrementals), even though it's SQL, and that slows things down too. Like NTFS, it leaves me wishing I had Novell's Salvage so I could just pull the file back and be done with it.
Backup just isn't something I feel I should ever have to really think about.
ArcServe and Netware are probably the only two pieces of software I can easily justify purchasing.
Rick