Roger Thomas wrote:
Quoting Roger Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I am really interested how you guys perform your daily backup on
/var/qmail. My /var/qmail is currently occupying 6.4GB of disk space.
How should I go backing up this on a daily basis. Example shell
script please. TIA.
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roger
The backup is not for my personal mail. The 6.4GB belongs to some 11,000 users
that are currently using my free webmail services. So I would like to know
backing up best-practices with this type of environment.
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Roger,
i imagine your asking because you don't have a raid 5 for whatever
reason. Neither do i. But i do have a backup server. if you have a
seperate disk or backup server, use rsync. I rsync qmail and home
directories on my production server to a hot standby server. The first
rsync will take a while, but later attempts will be quicker. If you run
linux at home or cygwin, you can run rsync from home if your server only
has one disk. try this: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
you can do incremental tar too, but if you have a hard disk problem, the
tar file will probably be hosed too.
