[Fwd: Re: Backup recommendation]
--- Begin Message --- ** Comments Inline ** > Roger, > i imagine your asking because you don't have a raid 5 for whatever > reason. RAID 5 doesn't gurantee anything except protection from the ocassional disk-failures. Your HDDs still sit in ONE location which is susceptible to Twisters, Floods etc. > 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. Backup servers and rsync are great ideas. As long as the backups aren't local you are doing fine :). > 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. Or you could try using DRBD. It replicates disk-blocks over a network. http://linux-ha.org/DRBD Regards, ah --- End Message ---
Re: Backup recommendation
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. -- 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. Qmail-ldap is a little simpler than most. Just backing up the files under /var/qmail pretty much gets the critical stuff. I've become a big fan of cluster mode setup two machines identically and rsync the maildirs back and forth. If one box fails you can just change all of its users "mailHost" parameter to the other system. If you've been rsyncing the only data lost will be the stuff in queue and everything that has changed since the last rsync. Otherwise.. treat the maildir like any other critical data. RAID, reliable hardware, and nightly backups to another server or tape. Mark
Re[2]: Backup recommendation
> > 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. I use rsnapshot, http://www.rsnapshot.org/ . Relatively easy to install. snapshot type backup is nice, it gives you the peace of mind knowing that you can find a file on your machine a year ago :)
Re: Backup recommendation
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. -- 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. -- 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.
Re: Backup recommendation
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. > > -- > 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. -- roger --- Sign Up for free Email at http://ureg.home.net.my/ ---
Auto subscribe to imap folders
Hi all, sorry if this is of topic, but anyone knows how to auto subscribe users to imap folders on courier-imap? I use procmail to send spam to a folder named SPAM but when people login is to check their mail via webmail (squirrelmail) they just see the folders INBOX. SENT DRAFTS TRASH, if i use bincimap i can use this line on the conf file: auto subscribe mailboxes = "INBOX,SPAM", and then users when login they can see the SPAM folder but how can I get the same results using courier-imap. regards.
Problem with rcpthosts
Hi all, I am having a problem with rcpthosts My rcpthosts contains one domain (domain.com), but any domain are not reject with Mail from on smtp Configurations: - rcpthosts domain.com - locals domain.com - qmail-smtpd.rules :allow,MAXRCPTCOUNT="75",BLOCKRELAYPROBE="1",CONCURRENCY="120",RCPTCHECK="1",RETURNMXCHECK="1",SANITYCHECK="1",TARPITCOUNT="50",TARPITDELAY="30" Can any one help me ? Thanks. Diego
Re: IMAP with Courier IMAP
>>> On 12/14/05, Rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
ok...but my problem is My courier IMAP instaled is runnign but
still do not create folder trash, sent, draft when I login via MUA
( outlook
express, thunderbird ) in my MUA inbox folder only
Thanks ,please help mee
>>> The problem is that outlook thinks that the folders are subfolders of
>>> inbox ... For example, Thunderbid haven't this problem.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yo have to configure in the outlook that the root folder is .INBOX
>>>
>>
>> NAMESPACE (("INBOX." ".")) NIL (("#shared." ".")("shared." "."))
>>
>>
>> 'INBOX.' and not '.INBOX'
>>
>
> thanks...but what i do change that configure.??
>
> Thanks ..
>
Courier IMAP reports used IMAP folder layout in NAMESPACE command. Any
IMAP client that supports IMAP NAMESPACE extension should configure
folders correctly. If IMAP client does not support NAMESPACE, prefix must
be manually configured. In Outlook Express it is set in IMAP mail account
properties. Tools -> Accounts
--
Tomas
Re: IMAP with Courier IMAP
> On 12/14/05, Rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> ok...but my problem is My courier IMAP instaled is runnign but still do
>> not create folder trash, sent, draft when I login via MUA ( outlook
>> express, thunderbird ) in my MUA inbox folder only
>>
>> Thanks ,please help mee
>>
>>
>>
> The problem is that outlook thinks that the folders are subfolders of
> inbox ...
> For example, Thunderbid haven't this problem.
>
>
> Yo have to configure in the outlook that the root folder is .INBOX
NAMESPACE (("INBOX." ".")) NIL (("#shared." ".")("shared." "."))
'INBOX.' and not '.INBOX'
--
Tomas
Re: IMAP with Courier IMAP
On 12/14/05, Rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ok...but my problem is My courier IMAP instaled is runnign but still donot create folder trash, sent, draft when I login via MUA ( outlookexpress, thunderbird ) in my MUA inbox folder onlyThanks ,please help mee The problem is that outlook thinks that the folders are subfolders of inbox ... For example, Thunderbid haven't this problem. Yo have to configure in the outlook that the root folder is .INBOX Regards, Pablo -- "If I ever met Bill Gates, there wouldn't be much of ameeting point. I couldn't tell him about business, andhe couldn't tell me about technology."-- Linus Torvalds
