On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 12:53:50PM +0200, Bazy wrote: > On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:40:24 +0300 > Nikolay Shopik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What is correct way to backup dovecot store? Is am I right what is just > > enough to copy all maildir and my configuration. So in case failure I > > can just prepare new machine copy config, maildirs and I'm good to go > > with this. > > I think that you should use a cheap machine with a disk drive as big as the > mail server's (or use squashfs) and imapsync every night... that way people > will be able to access their mail the next second that the big server fails. > Look at http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapsync > > It's just an idea... not the best way to do it I guess...
A normal rsync to another server of the maildir and configs will work fine. If you need to backup using windows or mac then a samba share is the best bet. Mark
