Silver Salonen wrote: > On Thursday 27 November 2008 09:50:14 Proskurin Kirill wrote: >> Hello all! >> >> Soon I will deploy a large email server - it will use maildirs and will >> be about 1Tb of mail with really many small files. >> >> It is any hints to make a backup via bacula of this? >> > I think Bacula is quite good for backing up maildirs as they constist of > separate files as e-mail messages. I don't think small files are a problem.
I don't think they're a problem either and I also backup a maildir-based mail server. However, one thing you may want to be aware of - unless you take specific steps to avoid it, the maildirs on tape won't necessarily be in a consistent state. Obviously this won't affect your IMAP server - but it does mean that when you restore, metadata like whether or not emails have been read or replied to and recently received/sent email won't be a perfect snapshot of how the mailserver looked at any given point in time. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
