Interesting idea, and have to admit I didn't think of it. There is a second HD ide hard drive slaved in the mail server, as well. I could use the likes of DD or dump/restore onto the second drive (slave). Last time I did that (dump/restore), I screwed up though, which is why a second backup method is preferable. I was playing CCD with the likes of that, for the separate /home partition. But for some reason it didn't quite feel right (likely a setup problem), so I scratched the CCD idea.
As for the cost of DVD+/-RW media, you'd be surprised at you can find. We bought Verbatim DVD-RW media @ 1.49$ Canadian each. I had also found a 5pack of some unknown brand (not R-DATA) being dumped at our local Staples for under $9cdn which I purchased for home use. I've got a squid-cache proxy server local to that subnet running OpenBSD as well, and it has plenty of HD space left on the 80gig Seagate SATA. Muchly appriciated! On 23/12/05, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:17 AM 12/23/2005 -0700, Whyzzi wrote: > >Hi gang. Running a lightweight mail server here (50 users total) on > >OpenBSD, and being the cheap bastard that I am I am looking forward to > >scripting a nightly backup onto some DVD-RW media. Can I assume that > >dump/restore is out of the question because of the special commands > >burners require to begin the writing process? And if that is indeed > >the case, any recommendations or uber cool few liners that would have > >say get maximum compression of the contents in /home where all related > >mail is stored (sendmail/procmail-maildir/dovecot). BTW: Happy > >Holidays to you and yours! > > Better recommendation - rsync /home to an external system (especially if > you're using Maildir). WAY less overhead! You can even backup more often. > An archive machine is less costly than a bundle of DVD-RWs, and you don't > have to swap media. > > Should you want more than one archive, there are various ways to manage > multiple versions. > > Lee
