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Hello, i have to backup (tape library) a mailsystem with about 300.000 Mailboxes on 2 backends. Summary of all mailboxes are 2 TByte. The mailstore is mdbox. Is it save to do a simple filesystem backup (full and incremental) with backupsoftware? What is the prefered strategy to do a backup for desaster recovery (mailsystem crash) and restoring single usermailboxes? Regards, Claus

Hi there. I am using mdbox storage with great success but I am seeing something I find strange and I would like to compare notes with you. When doing "doveadm purge", "m.*" files with non deleted messages are left alone, but "m.*" files with deleted messages copy the "non deleted" messages to a newly created "m.*" file and delete the original.

I'm rsync'ing an rdiff-backup repository to a different machine and I have a few questions I'm hoping you guys can help me out with. Should I use --archive? Or maybe -rlD instead? Can I restrict an SSH key to rsync? I can do it with rdiff-backup with command="rdiff-backup --server" but I can't figure out how to do it with rsync. The rdiff-backup repository I'm

On May 7, 2015 6:05 AM, "Jussi Hirvi" <greenspot at greenspot.fi> wrote: > > I wonder why nobody has yet mentioned rdiff-backup. It combines browsable directories with multiple versions - the version data is stored in a separate rdiff-backup-data subdirectory (one per backup task). > > One downside is that rdiff-backup causes a lot of network traffic. For that reason I

After the recent yum update to rdiff-backup-1.2.2-1.el5.rf rdiff-backup no longer works. I don't "speak" python so not sure what's going on. Here's a portion of what I'm seeing... # rdiff-backup /etc/ /backup/localhost/etc Exception '[Errno 34] Numerical result out of range' raised of class 'exceptions.IOError': File

I wonder why nobody has yet mentioned rdiff-backup. It combines browsable directories with multiple versions - the version data is stored in a separate rdiff-backup-data subdirectory (one per backup task). One downside is that rdiff-backup causes a lot of network traffic. For that reason I currently use rsync to copy over network, and then I use rdiff-backup locally to create a repository

hi everyone a good basher around here? I try in a script: _rdiffBack="rdiff-backup -v5 --tempdir /tmp/ --no-eas --exclude-other-filesystems --exclude-symbolic-links" _rdffiExclude="--exclude '**/~*' --exclude '**.tmp' --exclude-regexp '(.glusterfs|.trashcan|temp)'" _execCom=${!2} _sourceDir=${1} _backupTo=${3} __backMeUp() { for _sourceDir in

On 7.5.2015 14.24, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > I admit one think it does miss is having a convenient way to look for > a file, specially if you physically rotate drives. If rdiff-backup > will tell when was the last time a file has been backed up/touched > even if drive with said file is not mounted, I will need to get to > learn more about it. I don't think rdiff-backup would

On 05/07/2015 05:04 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > I wonder why nobody has yet mentioned rdiff-backup. It combines > browsable directories with multiple versions - the version data is > stored in a separate rdiff-backup-data subdirectory (one per backup task). I use rdiff-backup, but I hesitate to recommend a tool that has been unsupported for over 6 years and does have quite a few bugs. --

Hi all. (I am sending this querry here because it is somehow relating to rsync. If i am wrong please pardon me.) I am doing following on these windowsXP and Vista. I am trying to get only incremental backup using "rdiff-backup" (that also uses rsync). I have installed gcc compiler and by following the steps given in http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/2005/11/02/rdiff-backup-on-windows/

I am not a Linux Guru, so I just learned how to configure dhcpd5 to using static address instead of uninstalling. To avoid any potential problems. It looks the opposite :-). In "/var/lib/samba/private/named.conf" is a line "// If you are just adding zones, please do that in /etc/bind/named.conf.local". I do not use it, I estimate the zone will add samba provisioning. I

Hello I'm using mdbox for mail storage. I'd like to give users an option to recover backups into a new folder, say, Backup-$date. Is there a simple way to do this? I was looking at tools like dsync and doveadm-altmove but apparently they're not intended for this kind of stuff. Thanks in advance, Andre

Hello, when calling doveadm backup like in the following example, it seems to flush every email to disk maxing out harddrives (iops) and resulting in very poor performance: Calling doveadm -o plugin/quota= backup -u "statusmails at domain.com" "mdbox:/backup/vmail/domain.com/statusmails" finished in 212 secs [changes:1800 copy:1800 delete:0 expunge:0] The source mdbox holds

Hi, In preparation for a migration from maildir to mdbox, I am using dsync backup to do initial mailbox copies (at this point I do not want to risk any changes to the maildir). The initial run of dsync runs fine, but a second run to migrate any changes since the first run produces errors for many users. Here is an example of the type of error produced: > # dsync -u user backup mdbox:~/mdbox

On 30.8.2019 12.33, Gerald Galster via dovecot wrote: > Hello, > > when calling doveadm backup like in the following example, it seems to flush every email to disk > maxing out harddrives (iops) and resulting in very poor performance: > > Calling doveadm -o plugin/quota= backup -u "statusmails at domain.com" "mdbox:/backup/vmail/domain.com/statusmails" >

What's the best way to do long-term backups of the Maildir format these days? Traditionally we've just done a rdiff-backup or pointed Bacula at the Maildir. Both give us the option to reset a particular mailbox back to a previous day (any day within the last N months). Do we just need to snapshot the LVM volume that holds all the Maildir boxes, or is there some additional commands

Using mdbox as the storage backend, moving a message from a mailbox to another just update a reference. The message is not fisically moved on the disk. I would expect "dsync" to use this fact when source and destination are mdbox. But it doesn't. Anybody else can confirm?. Any plan to implement it?. Thanks!. -- Jes?s Cea Avi?n _/_/ _/_/_/

I do not know if this has been reported already (I searched the headers of the recent messages to r-devel) It seems that 'example' in R 2.11.0 has a problem when the help file does not contain any example. This is what happens on R 2.11.0 on Windows XP. > library(tools) > example(Rdiff) Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning message: In

Hello list, We were using two DC with 4.3.4 version of samba. Radius authentication wont work after upgrade one of DC to version 4.6.7. Authentication is working If winbind on radius server connects to DC with version 4.3.4. I tried install new radius server following tutorial on https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Authenticating_Freeradius_against_Active_Directory with same result. Radius is working

Hi All, This is my first post and I am relatively new with Linux. I am attempting to do three things and I'm hoping for advice: 1) Intergrate Samba fully with MySQL (unless another database would be considered better for this task). One of the things I've always had trouble with Linux is that everything is seperate. I understand that provides flexibility but I would like to