[Dovecot] backing up emails

[Angelo Chen]

Hi Noel,


I use exim4 and it delivers right into ~/.Maildir, so I assume /home contains all the emails, right? why we need to back up /etc   and /var/mail? Thanks,

Angelo

> 
> 
>> 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
>