[Dovecot] Backup Maildir

[Odhiambo Washington]

* 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,
        Wananchi Online Ltd.

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