On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:10 PM, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> A nice system wide backup strategy with around 2 dozen > thunderbird clients, is also part of the strategy. So > first users try to retrieve their lost emails, then > ask an admin...... I like a separate backup system for email > not part of the regular backup system..... pop3 is easy to backup, just copy the ~/.thundebird folder (%APPDATA%/thunderbird on Windows). You can use rscync, rsnapshot or a commercial program like CrashPlan. Another option is to provide an imap server with Zarafa which allows users to restore e-mails (1) and (brick) level backups server side (2) 1) http://doc.zarafa.com/6.40/User_Manual/en-US/html/_restoring_deleted_items.html 2) http://doc.zarafa.com/6.40/Administrator_Manual/en-US/html/_backup_amp_restore.html