[Dovecot] backing up emails

[Noel Butler]

On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 14:27 +0800, Angelo Chen wrote:


> auth default:
>   passdb:
>     driver: pam
>   userdb:
>     driver: passwd
> 

You're using system accounts so yes, but I'd hope that if server is on
any importance you would be doing more than just backing up that.
/home /etc /var/mail or where ever your MTA stores its mail before users
get it should be backed up daily at a bare minimum.

If this is a server of importance you should be doing nightly tar
backups of at least  /etc, once a week a full rsync of the entire box,
and a nightly rsync of your mail store, in your case /home and /var/mail
(or /var/spool/postfix if you're using that), and use that on a rolling
7 day basis... providing you have the space for it on your backup
server.

Cheers