Hi, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI schrieb: > 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.
thanks for the idea! I'll try it. I've one more question: What will happen to files which are locked or opend; e.g. if users are still logged in? > >> 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. I thought about the filelocking, so if the mailbox is one big file backing up things will be different from backing up a lot of smaler files... But may be rsync dose handel this also in a different way? Thanks once more Regards Götz -- Götz Reinicke IT-Koordinator Tel. +49 7141 969 420 Fax +49 7141 969 55 420 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH Mathildenstr. 20 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de Eintragung Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 205016 Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrats: Prof. Dr. Claudia Hübner Staatsrätin für Demographischen Wandel und für Senioren im Staatsministerium Geschäftsführer: Prof. Thomas Schadt
