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

[deoren]

On 6/30/2014 5:28 PM, deoren wrote:
> I'm still pretty new to running a mail server, but one thing I've come 
> to appreciate over the years is a good backup strategy. Since I have 
> always run my own servers for practice and for personal use I don't have 
> access to Enterprise backup solutions. Because of that I usually just 
> fall back to scripts and tarballs and offload the content on a regular 
> basis.
> 
> 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.
> 
> I went with Maildir format because based on my reading it is referred to 
> as time tested and corruption resistant. Because individual emails are 
> stored as separate files this also leads me to believe that a version 
> control system (Git, SVN) would allow for easy point in time restores.
> 
> I'm also going to research the GNU tar utility's support for incremental 
> archives as that sounds promising.
> 
> Suggestions and warnings are most welcome.
> 
> Thanks!
> 

Sorry for the late reply, and thanks to everyone who replied with
suggestions. I appreciate you taking the time to do that and you've
given me a lot of good ideas to look over.

Options are good!