Hi Noel,
I use exim4 and it delivers right into ~/.Maildir, so I assume /home contains all the emails, right? why we need to back up /etc and /var/mail? Thanks,
Angelo
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You're using system accounts so yes, but I'd hope that if server is on any importance you would be doing more than just backing up that. /home /etc /var/mail or where ever your MTA stores its mail before users get it should be backed up daily at a bare minimum.
If this is a server of importance you should be doing nightly tar backups of at least /etc, once a week a full rsync of the entire box, and a nightly rsync of your mail store, in your case /home and /var/mail (or /var/spool/postfix if you're using that), and use that on a rolling 7 day basis... providing you have the space for it on your backup server.
Cheers