Re: Email Server Backup Strategy

[Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay]

On 09.02.2020 19:08, Andrew McGlashan wrote:

Hi,

On 10/2/20 4:59 am, Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay wrote:

What I do:

1 - I ran a maildirlock command to my mail folder 2 - I then rsync
the folder where my maildirs are, as well as the indexes, to a
remote location

If rsync is not fast... then how about doing a snapshot and then rsync
off the snapshot?  (I do rsync over lvm snapshots to back up file
systems cleanly) and, btw, perform file system dumps [ufsdump /
ufsrestore like, but dump and restore on Linux] of *non-mounted*
backup file systems fwiw.

That's a good idea - In my case rsync is super fast, 1-2 min tops, so I can afford the lock for that time. But I surely should check more about snapshots.

I have other rsyncs that happen via rsnapshot during the day, I don't
worry about snapshotting them though, but I probably should....

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

I also use replication of my server so that I keep getting mail
when my main server isn't available.

You mean backup mx?

Best,

Francis

Yes. It is a work of beauty that thing :) I remember how cool it was to see mail being replicated when both servers are up and one responding for mail when one of the servers is down.

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