On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:17:53 -0400 "Administrator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> issued forth:
> How are administrators backing up their courier IMAP servers? Also what is > the easiest way to restore a mail message for a user? Thank you in advance > for your time and help. Twice daily I run a cron job to cp the files from the mail directories to a backup partition, copying over new/changed files based on timestamps (cp -rpvu). Thrice weekly, these (among other content) is tar'd up and ftp'd off to another box on my network. Once weekly a complete system backup is done via mondo (www.mondorescue.org). Since I use maildir for delivery, restoring messages is as easy as just cp'n them from my backup partition back into the users directory. Since old files arn't rm'd from my backup partition, I can restore if they accidentaly deleted all the messages in their box, as long as it was there at a time that my backup script ran. I keep the tar'd archives for a week. If they wait a week to tell me, *shrug*. If I'm not around to get their request, then I'm not around to delete it. (I don't cron the deletion, too risky). Anyway, that's what I do. Other admin's practices may vary. -- Sysop _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
