Quoting "Russell Simpkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 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.
That was quite obviously not what I meant. Did you actually TRY to 'switch over' to the other mailserver (shutting down the one that's currently running)? I'm VERY convinced that it will not work. Just because the file copy work, don't mean that the MACHINE will work as hoped when the primary crashes (or whatever).. > You will > of course only have the email that was there from the night before. I > recently, accidentaly, deleted my entire inbox. The inbox have absolutly NOTHING to do with the (qmail) queue.... The inbox (and the rest of the mailboxes) are just plain files. But the QUEUE files are encoded with the inode, which will change when/if you so much as TOUCHES the file (that is, everything but a READ!). -- Cuba CIA DES spy Ft. Meade class struggle president FBI attack NSA Khaddafi Mossad counter-intelligence $400 million in gold bullion NORAD [See http://www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/index.html for more about this] [Or http://www.europarl.eu.int/tempcom/echelon/pdf/rapport_echelon_en.pdf] If neither of these works, try http://www.aclu.org and search for echelon.
