On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 10:46 +0500, CoolAtt NNA wrote:
from the wiki of Lazy Expunge:
The plugin is configured by defining namespaces where the mails are
moved. You can decide if you want the namespaces to be visible to
clients, or if you want to show them only via some special webmail
i use drbd to keep the mailstore redundant and rsnapshot for backup.
On 10/02/2010 19:22, Terry Barnum wrote:
There's also rsnapshot which I've been using for hardlinked,
incremental backups for a couple years now. Very flexible and has
saved us a couple times.
http://www.rsnapshot.org
It's rarely mentioned, but I prefer snapback2 instead - basically the
CoolAtt NNA wrote:
Hi All..
Am working on continous backup of mailboxes using rsync(for e.g by running
rsync every 2 min)
Things gets more complicated when users create Subfolders in INBOX , SENT ,
etc..
If anyone among you did that plz guide advise.
We have a slightly different method
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 13:57 +, Stephen Usher wrote:
I've written a program, which is run by cron once a minute, which searches
for
messages within all the users' inboxes and then hard-links them into a backup
store elsewhere on the disk. Then, once a day a reaper process runs which
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 09:59:22AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
If you didn't give --delete parameter to rsync, there could be duplicates,
yes. Dovecot just logs about them and gives new UIDs to them, so you'll end
up having duplicate mails. I suppose some day I should just change it to log
a
On 2010-02-10 2:22 PM, Terry Barnum wrote:
There's also rsnapshot which I've been using for hardlinked, incremental
backups for a couple years now. Very flexible and has saved us a couple
times.
http://www.rsnapshot.org
+1 for rsnapshot - although it doesn't answer the 'continuous' backup
On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2010-02-10 2:22 PM, Terry Barnum wrote:
There's also rsnapshot which I've been using for hardlinked,
incremental
backups for a couple years now. Very flexible and has saved us a
couple
times.
http://www.rsnapshot.org
+1 for
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 15:14 +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 09:59:22AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
If you didn't give --delete parameter to rsync, there could be duplicates,
yes. Dovecot just logs about them and gives new UIDs to them, so you'll end
up having duplicate
access the namespaces(the back up mailboxes) ?
We are using Thunderbird,Microsoft Outlook RoundCube Webmail as email clients.
From: te...@dop.com
To: dovecot@dovecot.org
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:22:06 -0800
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Anyone successfully setup Continous Backup of
mailboxes
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On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, CoolAtt NNA wrote:
luigi, can you tell me what will happen if I create a directory in a user's
mailbox and restore some emails there.
now if the user's quota is x mb after restoration the mailbox becomes greater
than x mb.
L.M.J linuxmasterj...@free.fr:
Unfortunately, I'm using mbox :-/ In that case, --fuzzy got less
interest but --delete-after is definitely a good one.
If you're talking mbox then -fuzzy has no interest, that's right. But
rsync is still a good match, actually a better match than with maildir.
??
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CoolAtt
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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:20:05 +0100
From: al...@boxed.no
To: dovecot@dovecot.org
CC: t...@iki.fi; li...@luigirosa.com
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Anyone successfully setup Continous Backup of
mailboxes using rsync ?
On 29.01.2010 08:59, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 29.1.2010
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CoolAtt NNA said the following on 02/02/10 08:02:
Am thinking about the following files:
dovecot.index
dovecot.index.cache
dovecot.index.log
maildirsize
subscriptions
dovecot-uidlist
Will they affect the restore process ??
Based on some
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To: dovecot@dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Anyone successfully setup Continous Backup of
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CoolAtt NNA said the following on 02/02/10 08:02:
Am thinking about the following files:
dovecot.index
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CoolAtt NNA said the following on 02/02/10 08:36:
luigi, can you tell me what will happen if I create a directory in a user's
mailbox and restore some emails there.
now if the user's quota is x mb after restoration the mailbox becomes
greater
L.M.J linuxmasterj...@free.fr:
...
rsync -a --delete $i ${PATHTOSAFEPLACE}/$(date +%u)/${i}/
...
The downside to not using --fuzzy, is that the entire article is
transferred again if a message names changes slightly (ie. if we're
talking maildir here), as a result of status change.
Note
Le Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:04:12 +0100,
Steinar Bang s...@dod.no a écrit :
The downside to not using --fuzzy, is that the entire article is
transferred again if a message names changes slightly (ie. if we're
talking maildir here), as a result of status change.
Note if you decide to use --fuzzy
On January 31, 2010 9:04:12 PM +0100 Steinar Bang s...@dod.no wrote:
L.M.J linuxmasterj...@free.fr:
...
rsync -a --delete $i ${PATHTOSAFEPLACE}/$(date +%u)/${i}/
...
The downside to not using --fuzzy, is that the entire article is
transferred again if a message names changes slightly
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi:
The main potential problem with that is that if a message's flag is
changed, the filename changes so it's now stored twice in the backup
server. So when restoring mails, be sure not to restore duplicates.
I use the --fuzzy flag to handle the renaming issue. Here's
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:21:39AM +0500, CoolAtt NNA wrote:
Hi Alex,
I mirror the mailboxes as follows:
rsync -avt --log-file=$log_file /home/vmail/ 10.0.0.x:/home/vmail
I run it in a script for e,g every 1 min.
If running this from cron every minute, make sure to use
a lockfile or
successfully setup Continous Backup of
mailboxes using rsync ?
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi:
The main potential problem with that is that if a message's flag is
changed, the filename changes so it's now stored twice in the backup
server. So when restoring mails, be sure not to restore duplicates
...@dod.no
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:58:27 +0100
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Anyone successfully setup Continous Backup of
mailboxes using rsync ?
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi:
The main potential problem with that is that if a message's flag is
changed, the filename changes so it's now stored
On 29.01.2010 08:59, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 29.1.2010, at 7.57, Luigi Rosa wrote:
Timo Sirainen said the following on 29/01/10 06:48:
The main potential problem with that is that if a message's flag is
changed, the filename changes so it's now stored twice in the backup
server. So when
Le Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:07:32 +0500,
CoolAtt NNA cool...@live.com a écrit :
Am working on continous backup of mailboxes using rsync(for e.g by running
rsync every 2 min)
Things gets more complicated when users create Subfolders in INBOX , SENT ,
etc..
If anyone among you did that plz guide
Hi All..
Am working on continous backup of mailboxes using rsync(for e.g by running
rsync every 2 min)
Things gets more complicated when users create Subfolders in INBOX , SENT ,
etc..
If anyone among you did that plz guide advise.
Thanks
CoolAtt
The answer, if you can sell the cost, might be network storage. Most of
them provide the capability of take inode snapshots
CoolAtt NNA wrote:
Hi All..
Am working on continous backup of mailboxes using rsync(for e.g by running
rsync every 2 min)
Things gets more complicated when users
On 28.01.2010 09:07, CoolAtt NNA wrote:
Hi All..
Am working on continous backup of mailboxes using rsync(for e.g by running
rsync every 2 min)
Things gets more complicated when users create Subfolders in INBOX , SENT ,
etc..
If anyone among you did that plz guide advise.
You don't
On 1/28/10 12:07 AM, CoolAtt NNA wrote:
Hi All..
Am working on continous backup of mailboxes using rsync(for e.g by running
rsync every 2 min)
Things gets more complicated when users create Subfolders in INBOX , SENT ,
etc..
How?
If anyone among you did that plz guide advise.
of n days so that it
automatically gets deleted from the backup server.
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CoolAtt
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:57:15 +0100
From: al...@boxed.no
To: dovecot@dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Anyone successfully setup Continous Backup of
mailboxes using rsync ?
On 28.01.2010 09:07
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CoolAtt NNA said the following on 29/01/10 06:21:
rsync -avt --log-file=$log_file /home/vmail/ 10.0.0.x:/home/vmail
I run it in a script for e,g every 1 min.
By doing so if an email is deleted on the live server it still remain on the
backup
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:39:31 +0100
From: li...@luigirosa.com
To: dovecot@dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Anyone successfully setup Continous Backup of
mailboxes using rsync ?
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CoolAtt NNA said the following on 29/01/10
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 10:21 +0500, CoolAtt NNA wrote:
Hi Alex,
I mirror the mailboxes as follows:
rsync -avt --log-file=$log_file /home/vmail/ 10.0.0.x:/home/vmail
I run it in a script for e,g every 1 min.
By doing so if an email is deleted on the live server it still remain on the
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Timo Sirainen said the following on 29/01/10 06:48:
The main potential problem with that is that if a message's flag is
changed, the filename changes so it's now stored twice in the backup
server. So when restoring mails, be sure not to restore
: Re: [Dovecot] Anyone successfully setup Continous Backup of
mailboxes using rsync ?
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CoolAtt NNA said the following on 29/01/10 06:47:
Can you please explain how you do the restore?
I always restore at folder level, not mail level
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CoolAtt NNA said the following on 29/01/10 07:18:
It means if I create a new mailbox and I restore the emails at mail
level(individual files) ,will it work correctly?
And if I restore the same mail to an existing mailbox ??
Not a new mailbox, a
Am using Dovecot the maildir format.
Create a new folder like the following ??
vmail/coolatt/Maildir/restored-emails
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:20:37 +0100
From: li...@luigirosa.com
To: dovecot@dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Anyone successfully setup Continous Backup of
mailboxes
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CoolAtt NNA said the following on 29/01/10 07:39:
Create a new folder like the following ??
vmail/coolatt/Maildir/restored-emails
Actually vmail/coolatt/Maildir/.restored-emails would be better :)
Done that, you copy from the folder to be
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:07:32 +0500
CoolAtt NNA cool...@live.com wrote:
Hi All..
Am working on continous backup of mailboxes using rsync(for e.g by running
rsync every 2 min)
Things gets more complicated when users create Subfolders in INBOX , SENT ,
etc..
If anyone among you did
On 29.1.2010, at 7.57, Luigi Rosa wrote:
Timo Sirainen said the following on 29/01/10 06:48:
The main potential problem with that is that if a message's flag is
changed, the filename changes so it's now stored twice in the backup
server. So when restoring mails, be sure not to restore
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