[Dovecot] Backing Up

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz arekm at maven.pl
Wed Oct 29 23:32:19 EET 2008


On Wednesday 29 of October 2008, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Scott Silva wrote:
> >> What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a
> >> user's mail?
> >
> > I usually just rsync the /home directories to another server. The
> > inital sync
> > can take a while, but it gets faster after there is a base to work
> > from.
>
>    ...and it's much less painful if you're using maildir instead of
> mbox!

Not for rsyncing. Tons of small files means much slower rsync.

>             -Dave

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
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