On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:59:40 +0100
Vitali wrote:
> Wouldn't you consider AMANDA http://www.amanda.org
> I had been using it for long in my previous support engineering life.
> It's nice.
Yeah, AMANDA is great, but seems to be an overkill when you just need
to backup one or 2 servers, or your c
You were using Dovecot weren't you? If you're more interested in
protecting against server problems than end-user error you might look
into http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Dsync
On 2011-12-28, Wesley M. wrote:
> In fact,
> -1- i want to copy the mail server system to another machine. I suppose
>
On 12/28/2011 11:30 AM, Darrin Chandler wrote:
This sounds like a job for rsnapshot: essentailly point-in-time
snapshots on top of rsync, using hard links of unchanged files for space
and speed. With some additional shell scripting + cron you could have a
really nice scheme to keep 15 minute
In fact,
-1- i want to copy the mail server system to another machine. I suppose
rsnaphot
or a dump/restore in single user? is a good choice...
-2- And keep emails synchronized between the 2 mail server using rsync,
this step is ok.
Thank you very much for all your replies.
Cheers,
Wesley.
O
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:00:52AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote:
> However, backing up an IMAP mail store daily leaves a lot to be
> desired. Most likely time for someone to accidentally delete the
> important mail they have been waiting for is probably not too long
> after it arrives. Depending (mos
As always...you design your backup for your application.
Mail servers are particularly tricky, as the data the contain tends to
change minute-by-minute, and they are prone to both hardware failure,
administrator error AND user error. A user who nukes their mail store
will want their data rest
On 2011-12-28, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> mysqldump will provide a 'known state' of the database, which will make a
> restore possible; backing up files will only work if you shut down mysql
> during the backup process - something not realistic for a production
> server.
see mysqlhotcopy(1). there ar
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011, Wesley M. wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to backup our mailserver(4.7) in production.
> I read :
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#DupFS
>
Much simpler to:
> Do a mysqldump and direct to a known backup location
> Use rsnapshot to backup all of your data (including the email syst
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Gregory Edigarov
wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:06:14 +0400
> "Wesley M." wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I want to backup our mailserver(4.7) in production.
>> I read :
>> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#DupFS
>>
>> Can i do this wd1(my backup
>> disk) :
>>
>> mount /d
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:06:14 +0400
"Wesley M." wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to backup our mailserver(4.7) in production.
> I read :
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#DupFS
>
> Can i do this wd1(my backup
> disk) :
>
> mount /dev/wd1a /mnt
> dump -0auf /mnt/etc_backup /dev/wd0a
> ...
> same
> fo
Hi,
I want to backup our mailserver(4.7) in production.
I read :
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#DupFS
Can i do this wd1(my backup
disk) :
mount /dev/wd1a /mnt
dump -0auf /mnt/etc_backup /dev/wd0a
...
same
for wd0d and wd0e ... Or do i need absolutely to do it in Single User?
Or
perhaps,
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