valentin_nilsbe-known-online.com
Date: Sat Jul 02 2005 - 07:27:19 CDT

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I do maildir backups in different ways

1) I copy the maildirs locally (preserving user rights), that is usually
done in under 10-15 minutes. Then I make a backup from that copy, whch can
take however long it wants to (as long as it doesnt take 23 hours ;-)

2) You have this nice alwaysbccadmin option for postfix which is quite
usefull too ;-)

Best regards

Nils Valentin
Tokyo / Japan
http://www.be-known-online.com

> I was just wondering how long is long and why that matters (unless we're
> talking about half a day). I also use an rsync script that I have
> crontab-bed to run after midnight. It may take a couple of hours to back
> up
> each mail server, but then, what do I care? I'm asleep.
>
> Curtis
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Nguyen" <michaelntwentyten.org>
> To: <postfix-userspostfix.org>
> Sent: Thursday, 30 June 2005 12:07
> Subject: Best Practice: Backing up Maildirs
>
>
>> So... I have these good sized mail servers and as a precaution, I back
>> up
>> user mailboxes every night. I currently use rsync which works fine, but
> it
>> just takes sooooooooo long for rsync to do its thing. What's the best
>> way
>> to backup maildirs? What do you guys do?
>>
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>
>

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