From: Götz Reinicke > Hi, > > we run a Red Hat EL 5.2 mailserver with dovecot as the imap server. > Mails are stored in mbox format and there are about 134GB of mail. > > At the moment users copy their importent mail to their workstation > accounts wich are backed up nightly. > > What are your suggestions to back up the mails not copied? Thanks for > any comments.
You can simply rsync the whole mail store. Gets pretty efficient after the first run. Or take a look at rdiff-backup if you need to store previous copies. > BTW: Dose changing the mailbox format from mbox to Maildir or dbox dose > have any advantages? I don't think it makes any difference in this case.
