> The users maildirectory/-ies is a whole other thing though. That's > 'easy'... I do a full backup every night (to tape). An incremental is > also very pointless (if you use most of the OpenSource solutions), because > files are REMOVED (or MOVED with is partually the same thing - first a > COPY then a REMOVE) and 'most' (?) backup software can't detect this... > >> If you've been rsyncing the only data lost will be the stuff >> in queue and everything that has changed since the last rsync. > > Have you actually TESTED this? I would be VERY interested to know if > it really work. But Qmail author himself say that "it can't be done"...
I rsync qmail and users mail dir nightly and it works just fine. You will of course only have the email that was there from the night before. I recently, accidentaly, deleted my entire inbox. Since it was rsync'd the night before, I restored using rsync and only lost the days inbound, which was enough for me.
