On Sun, Feb 9, 2020, 23:38 Andrew McGlashan < andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
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Hi,
On 10/2/20 4:59 am, Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay wrote:
What I do:
1 - I ran a maildirlock command to my mail folder 2 - I then rsync the folder where my maildirs are, as well as the indexes, to a remote location
If rsync is not fast... then how about doing a snapshot and then rsync off the snapshot? (I do rsync over lvm snapshots to back up file systems cleanly) and, btw, perform file system dumps [ufsdump / ufsrestore like, but dump and restore on Linux] of *non-mounted* backup file systems fwiw.
I have other rsyncs that happen via rsnapshot during the day, I don't worry about snapshotting them though, but I probably should....
3 - I tar.gz the daily backup 4 - I kill the maildirlock process
I also use replication of my server so that I keep getting mail when my main server isn't available.
You mean backup mx?
As for postfix, I backup the database once a week, since it doesn't get changed that often.
Hope that helps!
Best,
Francis
On 09.02.2020 18:26, Esteban L wrote:
Hello,
Was thinking it would be wise to backup my server, in case anything "bad" ever happened, so that I could quickly get up to speed.
clone the whole drive -- which might be the best to ensure I keep the whole system working.
But, what about, if I just wanted to backup my Email server components? Postfix - which I think is just config files, and Dovecot - I think there is a doveadm backup for doing such things.
What do you guys do, recommend for backups??
Thanks
Cheers
Andrew McGlashan
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What do you guys do to backup mdbox mails with SiS enabled? DP