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

[CoolAtt NNA]

Hi Luigi,

Thats great.
Can you please explain how you do the restore?

I plan to do restore of 1 or more mail files.
If I simply copy a mailfile  e.g "MailDir/cur/my-email-file:2,S" to "MailDir/cur/" on the live system, are there issues associated 
with it ?

Thanks
CoolAtt
                                        

> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:39:31 +0100
> From: lists at luigirosa.com
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Anyone successfully setup Continous Backup of mailboxes using rsync ?
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> CoolAtt NNA said the following on 29/01/10 06:21:
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> > 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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> I use a similar strategy, with a more relaxed synchronization. But instead of
> setting an expire on backup system, I simply do a rsync --del every night.
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> 
> Ciao,
> luigi
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