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On 10/2/20 4:59 am, Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay wrote: > What I do: > > 1 - I ran a maildirlock command to my mail folder 2 - I then rsync > the folder where my maildirs are, as well as the indexes, to a > remote location If rsync is not fast... then how about doing a snapshot and then rsync off the snapshot? (I do rsync over lvm snapshots to back up file systems cleanly) and, btw, perform file system dumps [ufsdump / ufsrestore like, but dump and restore on Linux] of *non-mounted* backup file systems fwiw. I have other rsyncs that happen via rsnapshot during the day, I don't worry about snapshotting them though, but I probably should.... > 3 - I tar.gz the daily backup 4 - I kill the maildirlock process > > I also use replication of my server so that I keep getting mail > when my main server isn't available. You mean backup mx? > As for postfix, I backup the database once a week, since it doesn't > get changed that often. > > Hope that helps! > > Best, > > Francis > > > > > On 09.02.2020 18:26, Esteban L wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Was thinking it would be wise to backup my server, in case >> anything "bad" ever happened, so that I could quickly get up to >> speed. >> >> 1. clone the whole drive -- which might be the best to ensure I >> keep the whole system working. >> >> 2. But, what about, if I just wanted to backup my Email server >> components? Postfix - which I think is just config files, and >> Dovecot - I think there is a doveadm backup for doing such >> things. >> >> What do you guys do, recommend for backups?? >> >> Thanks Cheers - -- Andrew McGlashan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEAREIAB0WIQTJAoMHtC6YydLfjUOoFmvLt+/i+wUCXkBKkAAKCRCoFmvLt+/i +811AQCmzZtw7SLsKHi9bNybOtsuQwT/qqZ9GppCXJWAtRYzkQD+M3ZlXR6v3g9U 5Px4Aayix3mQyil0q7MZIYpNyrBWEjw= =YOGn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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