Been rsyncing my whole /var/vmail subdir (virtual users) for a while. So far so
good.
Yassine.
On Sunday, April 8, 2018, 11:56:29 PM GMT+1, Steve Atkins
<st...@blighty.com> wrote:
Up until now I've been backing up my IMAP server by taking an atomic snapshot
of the entire VM, so I've not really had to worry about it. I'm moving to
hosting where I have neither VM snapshots nor a filesystem that can take
snapshots, so I need to think about consistent backups a bit more.
Will a simple backup of all the files of an multi-dbox give me a consistent
state when I recover, or do I need to do something (e.g. lock writes to the
mailbox) while I run a backup?
(I could use doveadm backup if I were backing up to local storage I controlled,
but I'm pushing it to offsite buckets so I'd prefer to avoid backing up the
entire thing locally, then copying that offsite).
Cheers,
Steve
