Re: Best practices for backing up small mailserver to remote location

2018-08-09 Thread KSB
On 2018.08.09. 3:21, Adi Pircalabu wrote: On 09-08-2018 10:05, Kenneth Porter wrote: On 8/7/2018 5:08 PM, Adi Pircalabu wrote: - Since you're on dynamic IP at home, set up a VPN tunnel using the mailserver as server and HTPC as client. OpenVPN is ubiquitous and widely supported. - rsync your

Re: Best practices for backing up small mailserver to remote location

2018-08-08 Thread Adi Pircalabu
On 09-08-2018 10:05, Kenneth Porter wrote: On 8/7/2018 5:08 PM, Adi Pircalabu wrote: - Since you're on dynamic IP at home, set up a VPN tunnel using the mailserver as server and HTPC as client. OpenVPN is ubiquitous and widely supported. - rsync your mailboxes using the tunnel connection.

Re: Best practices for backing up small mailserver to remote location

2018-08-08 Thread Kenneth Porter
On 8/7/2018 5:08 PM, Adi Pircalabu wrote: - Since you're on dynamic IP at home, set up a VPN tunnel using the mailserver as server and HTPC as client. OpenVPN is ubiquitous and widely supported. - rsync your mailboxes using the tunnel connection. This way you can back up your entire server,

Re: Best practices for backing up small mailserver to remote location

2018-08-08 Thread Joseph Tam
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, daniel_1...@protonmail.com wrote: - rsync may not be the best option depending on the format of mailboxes. If you're using maildir or maildir+ that's fine, but what about mbox or dbox ? It depends on the situation. I can't speak for dbox, but if the mbox file is not

Re: Best practices for backing up small mailserver to remote location

2018-08-08 Thread daniel_1983
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On August 8, 2018 1:08 AM, Adi Pircalabu wrote: > - rsync may not be the best option depending on the format of mailboxes. If you're using maildir or maildir+ that's fine, but what about mbox or dbox ?

Re: Best practices for backing up small mailserver to remote location

2018-08-07 Thread Adi Pircalabu
On 08-08-2018 7:48, Ian Evans wrote: My webserver also houses our mailserver. There's about six users on that mail system and I'm thinking it would be good to back up the mailboxes to my always on HTPC computer at home, which is reachable via a dynamic IP service. I know (or think) I need to

Best practices for backing up small mailserver to remote location

2018-08-07 Thread Ian Evans
My webserver also houses our mailserver. There's about six users on that mail system and I'm thinking it would be good to back up the mailboxes to my always on HTPC computer at home, which is reachable via a dynamic IP service. I know (or think) I need to use doveadm-backup for this but rather