[Dovecot] Anyone successfully setup Continous Backup of mailboxes using rsync ?

[CoolAtt NNA]

Hi Alex,

I mirror the mailboxes as follows:

rsync -avt --log-file=$log_file /home/vmail/ 10.0.0.x:/home/vmail
I run it in a script for e,g every 1 min.
By doing so if an email is deleted on the live server it still remain on the backup server.
Then I give each mail file a retention period of n days so that it automatically gets deleted from the backup server.

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> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:57:15 +0100
> From: alexh at boxed.no
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Anyone successfully setup Continous Backup of mailboxes using rsync ?
> 
> On 28.01.2010 09:07, 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.
> >
> 
> You don't state much on what this runs on, but I do snapshot backups of 
> my IMAP server consistently by using LVM, and just match my cronjob to 
> snapshot it at a few given times, mounting the snapshot and backing up 
> with rdiff-backup.
> 
> Very simple, very easy, and very realiable. :)
> 
> > Thanks
> > CoolAtt
> >
> 
> -A
 		 	   		  
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