hi...
why not do this ???
/etc/aliases
tom: tom, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dick: dick, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
harry: harry, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
for all incoming email....it is copied to another machine backup...
than you need to periodically purge that backup machine
- maybe use mail directory for each of the month
/var/spool/{mail.1....mail.31}
- use cron to link mail.x to mail for that days backup
and stop and start sendmail...
just an idea...
have fun
alvin
> On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 01:24:39PM -0500, Jorj Bauer wrote:
> > useful. On a busy mail machine, it's difficult to get a static backup of
> > the contents of /var/spool/mail. If the raid tools supported the ability
> > to add and remove mirrors on the fly, one could have a redundant (third)
> > mirror which is detached nightly, mounted as a standalone filesystem
> > elsewhere, backed up, unmounted, and reattached to the /var/spool/mail
> > mirror.
>
> this should be a work for a journaled filesystem, where you can
> freeze the log, backup, unfreeze like vxfs (Veritas) does
>
> i theink someone was writing a jfs for linux called dtfs
>
> L.
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