Re: mail backup
"Kris Kelley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Incoming messages are first stored in ~/Maildir/tmp. They are only moved to ~/Maildir/new once the file write is complete. Therefore, as long as you are only backing up ~/Maildir/cur and ~/Maildir/new, you shouldn't have any risk of incomplete file back-ups. No need to skip Maildir/tmp...if you back up a partially delivered file and later restore the maildir, the message fragment will sit in tmp until something deletes it--it won't be moved to new. Does Amanda works fine? Not familiar with this program, but any file copier should do, even plain old "cp -r". Amanda (www.amanda.org) is a network backup system that uses dump or GNU tar. It works quite well. -Dave
Re: mail backup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering that how to backup mail directory. I am having trouble with how to do it. Please give me some idea what you are doing. Which mail directory are you referring to? /var/qmail? /var/spool/mail? ~user/Maildir? And what kind of trouble are you having? I use dump and GNU tar via Amanda to backup all of my mail directories and haven't had any trouble. Of course, restoring the queue is a little tricky since some of the files must be named after their inode number. -Dave
RE: mail backup
Hello, Which mail directory are you referring to? /var/qmail? /var/spool/mail? ~user/Maildir? And what kind of trouble are you having? I am referring to ~user/Maildir. Some of the user use POP, and the other use IMAP. And, I assume that incoming mails store into ~/Maildir/new. My question is: if there are new coming mail storing into ~/Maildir/new while backup job is working, what problem is going to happen. If there is no problem, it means that those new coming mail is not backed up? Or, if there is some error, what are they? Does Amanda works fine? Thank you taka Takayuki Murai -村井 隆之- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail backup
Takayuki Murai wrote: I am referring to ~user/Maildir. Some of the user use POP, and the other use IMAP. And, I assume that incoming mails store into ~/Maildir/new. My question is: if there are new coming mail storing into ~/Maildir/new while backup job is working, what problem is going to happen. Incoming messages are first stored in ~/Maildir/tmp. They are only moved to ~/Maildir/new once the file write is complete. Therefore, as long as you are only backing up ~/Maildir/cur and ~/Maildir/new, you shouldn't have any risk of incomplete file back-ups. Does Amanda works fine? Not familiar with this program, but any file copier should do, even plain old "cp -r". ---Kris Kelley
