Hi All, I'm currently doing nightly full backups of /home. I'm not sure if a full back up is the best way to do backups. I know with my fileserver i do weekly full backup and daily incremental which would file on those type of files. I guess my question to the group is, how do you guys backup Maildir? whats the best way of doing it? -- Gabe Granger Pancentric results-driven communications and e-solutions +44 (0) 20 8877 0230 http://www.pancentric.com
* On 06/10/05 16:06 +0100, Gabe Granger wrote:> Hi All, > > I'm currently doing nightly full backups of /home. I'm not sure if a > full back up is the best way to do backups. I know with my > fileserver i do weekly full backup and daily incremental which would > file on those type of files. I guess my question to the group is, > how do you guys backup Maildir? whats the best way of doing it?This is an interesting question, especially because it relates to mail! I am a systems admin, but this is one area that I seriously flop in. How do you backup e-mails for users when during the backup, they are deleting the e-mails from the Maildir (POPping) and at the same, and the SMTP server is also writing to it. This is very real on a busy mail server. So, how do people make backups of client's e-mails (Maildir)??? -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash at wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ Heavy, adj.: Seduced by the chocolate side of the force.
* On 06/10/05 13:10 -0400, Geo Carncross wrote:> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 19:10 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > * On 06/10/05 16:06 +0100, Gabe Granger wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I'm currently doing nightly full backups of /home. I'm not sure if a > > > full back up is the best way to do backups. I know with my > > > fileserver i do weekly full backup and daily incremental which would > > > file on those type of files. I guess my question to the group is, > > > how do you guys backup Maildir? whats the best way of doing it? > > > > > > This is an interesting question, especially because it relates to mail! > > I am a systems admin, but this is one area that I seriously flop in. > > > > How do you backup e-mails for users when during the backup, they are > > deleting the e-mails from the Maildir (POPping) and at the same, and > > the SMTP server is also writing to it. This is very real on a busy > > mail server. > > > > So, how do people make backups of client's e-mails (Maildir)??? > > The ostrich approach works very well for Maildir. Deleting entries or > new entries either show up or they didn't.Please describe this ostrich approach, or show me how. We only know of Ostriches for meat these sides :-) Best regards, Odhiambo Washington Systems Admin, Wananchi Online Ltd. Are you hosting your domain name with the leaders??: See http://webhosting.info/webhosts/tophosts/Country/KE DISCLAIMER : http://ns2.wananchi.com/~wash/Email/disclaimer.txt ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Odhiambo WASHINGTON . WANANCHI ONLINE LTD (Nairobi, KE) http://www.wananchi.com/email/ . 1ere Etage, Loita Hse, Loita St., Mobile: (+254) 722 743 223 . # 10286, 00100 NAIROBI ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Q: What is the difference between open-source and commercial software? A: If you have a problem with commercial software you can call a phone number and they will tell you it might be solved in a future version. For open-source software there isn't a phone number to call, but you get the solution within a day.
Gabe Granger wrote:> Hi All, > > I'm currently doing nightly full backups of /home. I'm not sure if a > full back up is the best way to do backups. I know with my fileserver > i do weekly full backup and daily incremental which would file on those > type of files. I guess my question to the group is, how do you guys > backup Maildir? whats the best way of doing it? >I backup the machine using Rsync, set to move any changed or deleted files to a date-stamped folder. That way I always have a live tree of the last backup (effectively a full backup) and daily directories of changes, without the network overhead. -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney at cardgate.net
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 16:06 +0100, Gabe Granger wrote:> Hi All, > > I'm currently doing nightly full backups of /home. I'm not sure if a > full back up is the best way to do backups. I know with my > fileserver i do weekly full backup and daily incremental which would > file on those type of files. I guess my question to the group is, > how do you guys backup Maildir? whats the best way of doing it? > > > -- > > Gabe Granger > > Pancentric > results-driven communications and e-solutions > > +44 (0) 20 8877 0230 > http://www.pancentric.com > > >lvm snapshot