Re: Email Server Backup Strategy

[Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay]

What I do:

1 - I ran a maildirlock command to my mail folder

3 - I tar.gz the daily backup
4 - I kill the maildirlock process





Hope that helps!

Best,

Francis




On 09.02.2020 18:26, Esteban L wrote:

2 - I then rsync the folder where my maildirs are, as well as the indexes, to a remote location I also use replication of my server so that I keep getting mail when my main server isn't available. As for postfix, I backup the database once a week, since it doesn't get changed that often.

Hello,

Was thinking it would be wise to backup my server, in case anything
"bad" ever happened, so that I could quickly get up to speed.


whole system working.

2. But, what about, if I just wanted to backup my Email server
components? Postfix - which I think is just config files, and Dovecot -
I think there is a doveadm backup for doing such things.

What do you guys do, recommend for backups??

Thanks

1. clone the whole drive -- which might be the best to ensure I keep the

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