> I guess if they had deleted it before the next rsync, you could just
> copy the individual mails back to the main, or have a script/trigger
> to do that.
What if they deleted the email before it got a chance to get synched?
> However, in this case, it sounds like error exists between keyboa
On Feb 9, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote:
I just have a second disk on the server that I rsync everything to
on an
hourly basis.
That would not solve the "oops I deleted that VERY IMPORTANT email,
where I can get it back?" question. My goal is not high availability,
but offering the
> > Since every mail is stored in its own file (versus concatenation in Mbox),
> > it's much cheaper to backup. Just copy all the new/touched files, not all
> > your mail.
> Yes, that's a good point. Because these files are *already* backups,
> I assumed that they wouldn't be backed up themselves,
> I just have a second disk on the server that I rsync everything to on an
> hourly basis.
That would not solve the "oops I deleted that VERY IMPORTANT email,
where I can get it back?" question. My goal is not high availability,
but offering the user a way to undelete emails.
> I use Matt Simerso
> Mailbox format might not be a bottleneck in this application. It's
> fairly efficient at appending new messages, and that is the only
> common operation being performed on these backup mail spools.
The application is using maildir (that's the normal email server that
is using mailbox).
Maildir
> >> Considering we have only 200 users and 3000 messages per day, whatever
> >> would do.
> >>
> >> MTA is sendmail/milter.
> >>
> >> I plan to change that mailbox thing when I get budget for a new
> >> machine to play with (I don't want to take the risk to break the
> >> working configuration).
>
> Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> > I read the article and the idea is good. But i would like to know what
>> MTA
>> > are you using..In the paper you said that at first the email is
>> strored in
>> > Mailbox format. Isn`t that a bottleneck. WHat are the loads of the
>> machines=
>
Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I read the article and the idea is good. But i would like to know what MTA
> > are you using..In the paper you said that at first the email is strored in
> > Mailbox format. Isn`t that a bottleneck. WHat are the loads of the machines=
>
> Considering
> I read the article and the idea is good. But i would like to know what MTA
> are you using..In the paper you said that at first the email is strored in
> Mailbox format. Isn`t that a bottleneck. WHat are the loads of the machines=
Considering we have only 200 users and 3000 messages per day, wha
That`s preatty interesting..
I read the article and the idea is good. But i would like to know what MTA
are you using..In the paper you said that at first the email is strored in
Mailbox format. Isn`t that a bottleneck. WHat are the loads of the machines.
Thanks
On 2/9/06, Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL
Hi,
As a sys-admin, I am often bugged by users who had mistakenly deleted
some very important email, and could I recover it from the tape
back-up.
I try to explain to them that back-up is only run once per 24 hours
and maybe their message arrived since the last run, and that tapes are
there to re
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