Hi Patrick,
I found rsync not to be very reliable.
I use the built in backup for the qmail server.
Then I copy the whole tar ball over to a second server using scp ( scp
*.tar [email protected]:/var/CommuniGate
On the second server I use the qmail built in restore, works great.
I also put the howto on the wiki, do a search for Automated backup.
madmac
Patrick Ring wrote:
That would make sense... Barring no changes have occurred to the
accounts/domains on the server.
I guess at that point an rsync/rdiff of the /home/vpopmail/domains on an
hourly basis would be effective for the basic data and then on a daily
basis mirror/sync the rest of the data (mysql, qmail control,
squirrelmail, etc).
Thanks,
Patrick Ring
-----Original Message-----
From: Jake Vickers [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 2009-06-29 08:36
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Qtp-backup script mods?
Patrick Ring wrote:
Has anyone thought about the idea of removing the date-coding of the
script in order to facilitate the full capability of rsync for when
you copy your backup files to another location?
Just a thought since my backup files are typically 5+GB and growing,
an rsync has to move the whole file every time and not just the diffs
since the files names and such are different on each backup.
Another possibility I've been looking into for a direct mirror is
changing the tar statements into either rsync or rdiff-backup
statements (once again losing the date-code variables).
Any thoughts, or pitfalls?
Usually when I have to start thinking of things like on systems, I just
rsync the /home/vpopmail/domains dir. Only move files that need to be
moved that way, and rsync will gzip compress on the fly anyway.
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