On Thursday 27 November 2008 11:07:41 James Cort wrote: > 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.
And when you have many incrementals in a row while restoring, you end up seeing many duplicate messages, that have been deleted or moved during these incrementals. It'll be better in Bacula 3.0, I guess :) -- Silver ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
