On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:12:28PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > 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).
[Replying to the reply because I missed the original] I rsync once a day to a remote machine. Since my primary server has a monthly bandwidth cap, I use this second machine to rsync to a third and fourth machine. The machines are geographically distributed, so the mail will survive natural disasters (earthquake, flood, etc). The whole thing is cronned so there's no admin overhead except in the event of mail restoration, which consists simply of performing the rsync in reverse. Though I don't do it personally, rsync could also be used locally on each machine to keep snapshots of the maildirs as they existed at various times in the past. FWIW, I back up the web content of virtual hosts using the same method. m. _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
