Roger Thomas wrote:
Quoting Roger Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I am really interested how you guys perform your daily backup on
/var/qmail. My /var/qmail is currently occupying 6.4GB of disk space.
How should I go backing up this on a daily basis. Example shell
script please. TIA.
--
roger
The backup is not for my personal mail. The 6.4GB belongs to some 11,000 users
that are currently using my free webmail services. So I would like to know
backing up best-practices with this type of environment.
Qmail-ldap is a little simpler than most. Just backing up the files
under /var/qmail pretty much gets the critical stuff.
I've become a big fan of cluster mode.... setup two machines identically
and rsync the maildirs back and forth. If one box fails you can just
change all of its users "mailHost" parameter to the other system. If
you've been rsyncing the only data lost will be the stuff in queue and
everything that has changed since the last rsync.
Otherwise.. treat the maildir like any other critical data. RAID,
reliable hardware, and nightly backups to another server or tape.
Mark
