- On 06/10/05 13:10 -0400, Geo Carncross wrote:
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 19:10 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
- On 06/10/05 16:06 +0100, 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?This is an interesting question, especially because it relates to mail! I am a systems admin, but this is one area that I seriously flop in.
How do you backup e-mails for users when during the backup, they are deleting the e-mails from the Maildir (POPping) and at the same, and the SMTP server is also writing to it. This is very real on a busy mail server.
So, how do people make backups of client's e-mails (Maildir)???
The ostrich approach works very well for Maildir. Deleting entries or new entries either show up or they didn't.
Please describe this ostrich approach, or show me how. We only know of Ostriches for meat these sides :-)
Best regards,
Odhiambo Washington
Systems Admin,
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