Mailboxes are in Maildir format. Any good backup tips? Had success with version control?

[Charles Cazabon]

deoren <Dovecot-mailing-list at whyaskwhy.org> wrote:
> 
> Right now I'm using LVM snapshots + tarballs for daily backups, but
> I'd like to get better coverage for incremental changes that occur
> throughout the day. The size of existing content is low, but (small)
> changes are frequent.

If you actually want to preserve those increments (as opposed to just keeping
an rsync mirror up-to-date), I like rdiff-backup.  It handles maildirs well
because of the one-message-per-file design.

Charles
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