[Dovecot] backup strategie - any ideas and tips

Hi,

we run a dovecot mail-server with about 50GB of e-mail and at the moment users are responsebil for macking ther own backup of e-mails.

But I'd like to have also a backup of the mail, beckause not all users do ther backups ...

We use mbox-format-mailboxes.

Any ideas how to backup the mailboxes without stopping the server, doing a backup to disk/tape/...?

Thanks for any ideas ant tips!

Regards

Götz Reinicke

Götz Reinicke IT Koordinator - IT OfficeNet

Tel. +49 (0) 7141 - 969 420 Fax +49 (0) 7141 - 969 55 420 goetz.reinicke@filmakademie.de

Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Mathildenstr. 20 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de