On Sun, Feb 9, 2020, 23:38 Andrew McGlashan < andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi, > > 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----- > What do you guys do to backup mdbox mails with SiS enabled? DP >
