Wols Lists wrote: > On 27/03/2022 22:34, Dale wrote: >> I don't have RAID at all. Just three drives being used as /home on >> LVM. I should use RAID but I have a backup that gets done each week. I >> wouldn't lose much even if it crashed and burned badly. The biggest >> loss might would be emails. I think I have gmail set up to save them so >> I think it would download whatever was missing from the last backup >> restoration. I need to check that. > > You might have copies of email everywhere without realising it. If > gmail is set up as imap, then it will keep a copy of all your mail. I > have dovecot set up which keeps a copy of all mine. > > Suck it and see, but if you have /home on one drive, and dovecot cache > on another, then you shouldn't lose anything. Mail clients should err > on the side of caution, and if they disagree with the server they > should assume the worst and sync keeping not sync deleting. > > Cheers, > Wol > >
I looked into setting up a local mail server, it is just way over my head. When I have time to deal with it, I'll look into it again. I'm sure I can do it but at the moment, got to much else going on. It's the season for catching catfish anyway. ;-) I have Seamonkey set up as pop thingy. It downloads the new messages and I looked to see, it is set not to delete from server for 90 days. If I had a major loss, it would be far less than 90 days until I got back running. May start moving things around tomorrow. It can do some of the work while I'm catching catfish bait. They love bream. They fun to catch. They give a good fight for a small fish. Dale :-) :-)
