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!