On 31 May 2020, at 12:05, Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay <[email protected]>
wrote:
> It annoys me have to do the doveadm to the local server - seems like a waste
> of disk space, but since maildirlock is not working and since doveadm backup
> to a remote server requires a bit more work to, well, to work, so I guess
> this is a simple and quick solution.
It's all a matter oof what exactly you need the backup to be.
For example, for my needs it would be perfectly reasonable to simple backup all
the email messages and ignore the dovecot index files and other ancillary
files. The purpose of my backup is to provide emergency recovery of a message
or a few messages, not to provide a fail-over HA duplicate of the Mailserver so
that there is never any interruption in service. If the worst happens and the
machine literally dies, it will take me a couple of hours to replace it and
have mail back up and running (starting with the last 7 days of mail and
backfilling older mail as I go) and that's fine. Not suggesting this is fine
for anyone else, of course.
--
'I warn you, dragon, the human spirit is-' They never found out what
it was, or at least what he thought it was, although possibly in
the dark hours of a sleepless night some of them might have
remembered the subsequent events and formed a pretty good and
gut-churning insight, to whit, that one of the things sometimes
forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the
right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when
you get right down to it, only human.
