[vchkpw] rsync

2008-02-01 Thread Tariq Azad/OPS
Did any body tried using rsync to replicate between backup and primary qmail servers. Is it recommended for a Qmail hosting multiple domains having more then 7000 users. -- Regards, Tariq Azad Sr. Network Engineer Micronet Broadband (Pvt) Ltd. 73-E GD- Arcade Fazal-ul-Haq Road Islamabad.

Re: [vchkpw] rsync

2008-02-01 Thread Christopher Chan
Tariq Azad/OPS wrote: Did any body tried using rsync to replicate between backup and primary qmail servers. Is it recommended for a Qmail hosting multiple domains having more then 7000 users. Try nfs or whatever backend storage interface you fancy for your storage server and put

Re: [vchkpw] rsync

2008-02-01 Thread Christopher Chan
Tariq Azad/OPS wrote: Did any body tried using rsync to replicate between backup and primary qmail servers. Is it recommended for a Qmail hosting multiple domains having more then 7000 users. Sigh, I guess you meant qmail configuration and not the mail store. Don't post when you get back

Re: [vchkpw] rsync

2008-02-01 Thread Quey
Tariq Azad/OPS wrote: Did any body tried using rsync to replicate between backup and primary qmail servers. Is it recommended for a Qmail hosting multiple domains having more then 7000 users. I back up our mysql db hourly with mysqldump, on 24 hour x 7day basis and with rsync I do it on

Re: [vchkpw] rsync

2008-02-01 Thread Steve
Quey wrote: I back up our mysql db hourly with mysqldump, on 24 hour x 7day basis and with rsync I do it on all servers regardless of how many users they have, we also do it on a rolling 7 day basis Pretty simple, you can expend on this greatly like I do in my main scripts by using

Re: [vchkpw] rsync

2008-02-01 Thread Quey
Steve wrote: Quey wrote: I back up our mysql db hourly with mysqldump, on 24 hour x 7day basis and with rsync I do it on all servers regardless of how many users they have, we also do it on a rolling 7 day basis Pretty simple, you can expend on this greatly like I do in my main scripts

Re: [vchkpw] rsync

2008-02-01 Thread Christopher Chan
Now if you only do a normal rsync backup, it's also lost for good, you can not recover, doing it my way means we can recover, might have lost a couple days but we can recover their mail (so long as they dont go away for over a week anyway hehehe) That is why I rsync to a backup server

Re: [vchkpw] rsync

2008-02-01 Thread Steve
Quey wrote: Yup, however backups are done like this for a reason, say its a hosting server, a reseller accidentally deletes a domain by mistake, it's a friday afternoon, he's going away now and comes back monday morning to find a trillion messages on his phones and emails, if you do only

Re: [vchkpw] Rsync concerns

2005-09-14 Thread Bruno Negrao
I had already tried this, however, I pipe the output of the command to a log file which I check most days to ensure it is still working. For some reason the errors don't go to the log but get sent to root. If I use -q I get no output in the log even. Hi Andrew, Well, it seems to be a silly

RE: [vchkpw] Rsync concerns

2005-09-14 Thread Andrew Hodgson
!). Thanks. Andrew. -Original Message- From: Bruno Negrao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 September 2005 17:08 To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Rsync concerns I had already tried this, however, I pipe the output of the command to a log file which I check most days

RE: [vchkpw] Rsync concerns

2005-09-13 Thread Andrew Hodgson
-Original Message- From: Ken Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 September 2005 19:02 To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Rsync concerns Hi Ken, Andrew Hodgson wrote: Hi, I have two Vpopmail servers - one which is a backup of the other at a remote site. I am

[vchkpw] Rsync concerns

2005-09-12 Thread Andrew Hodgson
Hi, I have two Vpopmail servers - one which is a backup of the other at a remote site. I am currently using Rsync to mirror /home/vpopmail/domains/virtualdomain, however, while this works without errors during the night, during the day we get errors in the Cronlog because the users are

Re: [vchkpw] Rsync concerns

2005-09-12 Thread Ken Jones
Andrew Hodgson wrote: Hi, I have two Vpopmail servers - one which is a backup of the other at a remote site. I am currently using Rsync to mirror /home/vpopmail/domains/virtualdomain, however, while this works without errors during the night, during the day we get errors in the Cronlog because

Re: [vchkpw] Rsync concerns

2005-09-12 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-09-12, at 0348, Andrew Hodgson wrote: I am currently using Rsync to mirror /home/vpopmail/domains/ virtualdomain, however, while this works without errors during the night, during the day we get errors in the Cronlog because the users are collecting mail via POP. I am not too