On Wed, 24 May 2006, D Canfield wrote:
I'm just curious how other users are backing up maildirs using bacula. We're using cyrus as our mail server, so we've got about 162GB of data stored in 4.4 million files, or an average of 37K per message. Most other products I've tried (both commercial and open source) have not been too happy with this arrangement and end up requiring vast amounts of disk space and overhead to index this kind of mail spool.
For a couple of years ago we had 6 maildir servers with ~600GB maildirs on each. It was a nightmare to backup. Veritias has a product that made backups on raw data even if it was monted. It was much faster that file backup.
But my guess is that you will be happy with Bacula, depending what hardware you have on the database server.
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