Hi Luigi, Thats great. Can you please explain how you do the restore?
I plan to do restore of 1 or more mail files. If I simply copy a mailfile e.g "MailDir/cur/my-email-file:2,S" to "MailDir/cur/" on the live system, are there issues associated with it ? Thanks CoolAtt > Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:39:31 +0100 > From: li...@luigirosa.com > To: dovecot@dovecot.org > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Anyone successfully setup Continous Backup of > mailboxes using rsync ? > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > CoolAtt NNA said the following on 29/01/10 06:21: > > > rsync -avt --log-file=$log_file /home/vmail/ 10.0.0.x:/home/vmail > > I run it in a script for e,g every 1 min. > > By doing so if an email is deleted on the live server it still remain on > > the backup server. > > Then I give each mail file a retention period of n days so that it > > automatically gets deleted from the backup server. > > I use a similar strategy, with a more relaxed synchronization. But instead of > setting an expire on backup system, I simply do a rsync --del every night. > > > > Ciao, > luigi > > - -- > / > +--[Luigi Rosa]-- > \ > > Oo-ta goo-ta, Solo? > --Greedo, "Star Wars" > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAktidI8ACgkQ3kWu7Tfl6ZRfEACfRfJR4z99TIEgylKSywVAa4px > l1kAnRA6xyigbYl+BVZoi6d5Vi5/n4Yk > =f8lP > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969