>>>> Does anyone have any low-end/low-budget backup >>>> suggestions for user mail >>>> spools? Consider hobby type scenarios or small businesses >>>> with a cheap single >>>> hard drive rented (dedicated/shared) server where there may >>>> not be budget for >>>> another server or paid backup service. >>>> >>>> My thought was if data size wasn't too big, you can use >>>> duplicity[1] >>>> and FTP the data to one of the few free "cloud"/online >>>> backup services >>>> (I think filesonic allows reasonable FTP access level, memopal >>>> and box.net seem >>>> to have webdav access, although might still be buggy to work >>>> with duplicity.... >>>> others I looked at either didn't seem to have webdav or FTP or >>>> had limits >>>> that were too restrictive in their free accounts). Or just FTP >>>> stuff to an old >>>> file server in your office that's not used for anything except >>>> backups, but >>>> this depends on connectivity and consistent uptime. >>>> >>>> Or to again use duplicity with a cheap paid FTP account like >>>> at rsync.net. >>>> >>>> Are there other ways of achieving this? >>> >>> Built into postfix; examine always_bcc and its variants. >> >> Thanks that's a good thing to keep in mind, but I'm not looking to >> archive all incoming messages, rather the current state of the users' >> mail spools. >> >> No other people have systems for doing this? >> > > look here for in idea > > http://www.arschkrebs.de/postfix/postfix_archive.shtml
Thanks, but I fail to see how that is in reply to my last statement that I want to back up the current state of user mail spools. Backing up all email as it is incoming is a different question. Thanks anyway
