Am 16.11.2011 18:17, schrieb Daniel Bromberg: > Greetings All, > > I am looking for the best way to do online/offsite, automated, nightly, > incremental file backup for my mail server.
these days i would go ahead and move the mailserver on a VMware-vCenter and with the essentials-plus license you get VMware-DataRecovery which makes real good deduplication from some terabyte down to 250-500 GB and is snapshot-based rsync of a running filesystem-based mailserver will mostly not be consistent and shut down the services for backups is bad http://www.vmware.com/products/data-recovery/overview.html you can restore the whole machine as a running clone and give it a free ip-address (test recovery) ________________________________ on the other hand we are using dbmail and with mysql/innodb as backend a replication salve is easy to set up which you can always put down automated and use rsync for a offiste-backup of the slave we are using both, daily offsite-backup and weekly VDR 3 weeks back and additionally a weekly rotate on the slave wher a simple "service mysqld stop; service mysql-lastweek start" will switch the imap-server a week back to restore mails with imapsync ________________________________ depends on your needs, but this are ours solutions after a long time thinking how we can get as much backups as possible with minimzed overhead in work and storage and zero downtime
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