Current thinking on backups ?

Laura Smith
Tue, 26 May 2020 08:02:15 -0000

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On Tuesday, 26 May 2020 05:31, Germain Le Chapelain <germain.lechapelain at
lanvaux.fr> wrote:

> > Le 24 mai 2020 ? 14:42, Laura Smith n5d9xq3ti233xiyif2vp at
protonmail.ch a ?crit :
> > Hi,
> > What are people doing for backups ?
> > My current process is LVM snapshot and backup from that to NFS share.
> > But there seems to be hints around the internet that people use/abuse
"doveadm backup" for backup purposes even though it seems its original
intention was for transferring mailboxes between dovecot instances.
> > Assuming its ok to "doveadm backup" to an NFS share, is it
ok to use "doveadm backup" when dovecot has replication setup
(replication-notify etc.) ? Or will it interfere ?
> > Thanks!
> > Laura
>
> This has came up in the past:
>
> https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2020-February/thread.html#118206
>
> I ended up developing my own system based on forwarding all emails to a
program (from which I back-up as they come in.)
>
> I am hoping if disaster and/or misfortune were to strike my server, I could
simply cat >> back all those files in order (or not come to think of it)
in the /var/mail/<username> (or somewhere even better fit in Postfix.)
>
> I am not interested in saving the state of the mailbox as much as all the
mails that ever come in (or go out.)
>
> Kindest regards,
>
> Germain


Thanks Germain !