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

[Jiri Bourek]

On 1.7.2014 15:55, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote:
> Em 01/07/14 10:06, Eliezer Croitoru escreveu:
>> On 07/01/2014 03:06 PM, Jiri Bourek wrote:
>>>
>>> That really depends, rebuilding indexes can increase your downtime for
>>> hours, so it may be better to pay a bit for extra storage space instead
>>> of not being paid at all by your customers.
>> Building the index as far as I remember doesn't cost in downtime but
>> in higher I/O usage which slows down the server.
>>
>
>      That's my knowledge as well. Rebuilt of indexes are done on-the-fly
> when the account is accessed and, thus, there's no downtime involved on
> that.
>
>      Of course, with lots of big accounts and lots of initial accesses
> on the scenario where ALL accounts were restored without indexes, the
> I/O increase can be so high that the server will be basically
> unresponsive. That can happen for sure.

Exactly my point. I saw that happen once and the slowdown effectively 
became a downtime.

>
>      But on the more common case, which will be restoring just a few
> accounts, that I/O increase will probably be unnoticable.
>
>