CoolAtt NNA wrote:
Hi All..
Am working on continous backup of mailboxes using rsync(for e.g by running rsync every 2 min)
Things gets more complicated when users create Subfolders in INBOX , SENT , etc..
If anyone among you did that plz guide & advise.
We have a slightly different method of doing a back-up, at least of people's inboxes (which is all I "archive").
I've written a program, which is run by cron once a minute, which searches for messages within all the users' inboxes and then hard-links them into a backup store elsewhere on the disk. Then, once a day a reaper process runs which checks for all files in that store with only one link and have not been accessed for a set amount of time (in our case 90 days) and then deletes those files. In other words, the messages are kept for 90 days after they have been deleted or moved out of the user's inbox.
I've attached the source code tar file as you or someone else may find it useful.
In your case you could rsync the back-up store instead of the user's main directory structure and maybe only do it once per day.
Steve
IT Systems Administrator, E-Mail:- steve@earth.ox.ac.uk Department of Earth Sciences, Tel:- +44 (0)1865 282110 University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, UK. Fax:- +44 (0)1865 272072