"Kris Kelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Incoming messages are first stored in ~/Maildir/tmp. They are only moved to
>~/Maildir/new once the file write is complete. Therefore, as long as you
>are only backing up ~/Maildir/cur and ~/Maildir/new, you shouldn't have any
>risk of incomplete file back-ups.
No need to skip Maildir/tmp...if you back up a partially delivered
file and later restore the maildir, the message fragment will sit in
tmp until something deletes it--it won't be moved to new.
>> Does Amanda works fine?
>
>Not familiar with this program, but any file copier should do, even plain
>old "cp -r".
Amanda (www.amanda.org) is a network backup system that uses dump or
GNU tar. It works quite well.
-Dave
