On Thu, 4 May 2000, Uwe Ohse wrote:
>On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 01:14:25AM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote:
>> Anyone have any tips on how to effeciently backup Maildir systems with millions
>> of files?
>
>don't do it. Nobody likes getting duplicate mail.
Doing backups has absolutely nothing to do with duplicate emails? I fail
to see your point here?
>> I am pondering switching the company mail server over to Maildir.
>> It's a very large and busy system. We have had situations before where there
>
>Use a raid system.
While a RAID system will protect you from certain failures (ie. hard drive
crash) there are other failures that it cannot protect you against. Human
error, hacker rm -rf'ing your server, etc, etc) whereas offsite, or off
machine backups will.
I would feel better knowing that my users precious mail is also backed up
on RAID as well as on another machine/media. Im sure they would feel the
same way as well.
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