Am 13.02.2013 08:20, schrieb Steffen Kaiser:
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, David Mehler wrote:
Thanks, if I did:
rsync --force --delete-after -tPrlHpogEAXz /folder/ /backups/newmailstore/
could I then tar up the newmailstore folder with something
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, Reindl Harald wrote:
Thanks, if I did:
rsync --force --delete-after -tPrlHpogEAXz /folder/ /backups/newmailstore/
could I then tar up the newmailstore folder with something like tar
zcf without messing anything up?
keep in
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2013, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 11.02.2013 22:37, schrieb Steve Litt:
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:47:57 +0100
Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote:
Am 11.02.2013 21:34, schrieb David Mehler:
I'm having to migrate servers. Both are
Hello,
Thanks, if I did:
rsync --force --delete-after -tPrlHpogEAXz /folder/ /backups/newmailstore/
could I then tar up the newmailstore folder with something like tar
zcf without messing anything up?
Thanks.
Dave.
On 2/12/13, Steffen Kaiser skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote:
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, David Mehler wrote:
Thanks, if I did:
rsync --force --delete-after -tPrlHpogEAXz /folder/ /backups/newmailstore/
could I then tar up the newmailstore folder with something like tar
zcf without messing anything up?
keep in
Hello,
I'm having to migrate servers. Both are dovecot2 systems. I'm wanting
to copy over my mail store from one system to the other. I'd like to
preserve dates/times of emails. These are maildir setups on both
boxes, I'd like to be as transparent to the end user as possible. I
currently have the
Am 11.02.2013 21:34, schrieb David Mehler:
I'm having to migrate servers. Both are dovecot2 systems. I'm wanting
to copy over my mail store from one system to the other. I'd like to
preserve dates/times of emails. These are maildir setups on both
boxes, I'd like to be as transparent to the
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:47:57 +0100
Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote:
Am 11.02.2013 21:34, schrieb David Mehler:
I'm having to migrate servers. Both are dovecot2 systems. I'm
wanting to copy over my mail store from one system to the other.
I'd like to preserve dates/times of
Am 11.02.2013 22:37, schrieb Steve Litt:
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:47:57 +0100
Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote:
Am 11.02.2013 21:34, schrieb David Mehler:
I'm having to migrate servers. Both are dovecot2 systems. I'm
wanting to copy over my mail store from one system to the
Am 11.02.2013 21:34, schrieb David Mehler:
Hello,
I'm having to migrate servers. Both are dovecot2 systems. I'm wanting
to copy over my mail store from one system to the other. I'd like to
preserve dates/times of emails. These are maildir setups on both
boxes, I'd like to be as transparent
On 12/13/2011 04:21 PM, Asai wrote:
Greetings,
Working with dsync and setting up backups to a Windows file server.
Problem seems to be that Windows is renaming the dovecot mail files
(maildir) to Windows friendly filenames, and losing the Dovecot name.
For example,
On 12/22/2011 01:30 AM, Willie Gillespie wrote:
On 12/13/2011 04:21 PM, Asai wrote:
Greetings,
Working with dsync and setting up backups to a Windows file server.
Problem seems to be that Windows is renaming the dovecot mail files
(maildir) to Windows friendly filenames, and losing the Dovecot
On 12/13/2011 5:34 PM, Jerry wrote:
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:21:09 -0700
Asai articulated:
Working with dsync and setting up backups to a Windows file server.
Problem seems to be that Windows is renaming the dovecot mail files
(maildir) to Windows friendly filenames, and losing the Dovecot name.
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:17:58 -0700
Asai articulated:
On 12/13/2011 5:34 PM, Jerry wrote:
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:21:09 -0700
Asai articulated:
Working with dsync and setting up backups to a Windows file server.
Problem seems to be that Windows is renaming the dovecot mail files
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Asai said the following on 14/12/11 17:52:
Thanks, Luigi, I may fall back to that.
Should you need it, here's the script I use to do it.
In my configurations /var/spool/mail contains one dir for each domain and each
of that dir contains a maildir
Greetings,
Working with dsync and setting up backups to a Windows file server.
Problem seems to be that Windows is renaming the dovecot mail files
(maildir) to Windows friendly filenames, and losing the Dovecot name.
For example,
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:21:09 -0700
Asai articulated:
Working with dsync and setting up backups to a Windows file server.
Problem seems to be that Windows is renaming the dovecot mail files
(maildir) to Windows friendly filenames, and losing the Dovecot name.
For example,
On Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 23:21:09 UTC, a...@globalchangemusic.org
confabulated:
Greetings,
Working with dsync and setting up backups to a Windows file server.
Problem seems to be that Windows is renaming the dovecot mail files
(maildir) to Windows friendly filenames, and losing
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Asai said the following on 14/12/11 00:21:
Working with dsync and setting up backups to a Windows file server.
Problem seems to be that Windows is renaming the dovecot mail files
(maildir) to Windows friendly filenames, and losing the Dovecot
Spyros Tsiolis wrote on 11/12/2010:
a. How safe will I be backing up dovecot
b. What folders/files to backup
It's enough to backup your Dovecot configuration files (usually the
folder /etc/dovecot or /usr/local/etc/dovecot) and your SSL certs (if
used).
You should also backup your mailboxes
Hello people,
Well, what the subjects says :-)
I have a dovecot/Horde installation and would like to know :
a. How safe will I be backing up dovecot
b. What folders/files to backup
Let me see now; I am running dovecot v1.2.15
Here's a dump of dovecot -n :
Hi Noel,
I use exim4 and it delivers right into ~/.Maildir, so I assume /home contains
all the emails, right? why we need to back up /etc and /var/mail? Thanks,
Angelo
auth default:
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
You're using system accounts so yes, but I'd
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 22:28 +0800, Angelo Chen wrote:
Hi Noel,
I use exim4 and it delivers right into ~/.Maildir, so I assume /home contains
all the emails, right? why we need to back up /etc and /var/mail? Thanks,
No real experience with Exim, last time I looked at it was 10 years
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 14:27 +0800, Angelo Chen wrote:
auth default:
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
You're using system accounts so yes, but I'd hope that if server is on
any importance you would be doing more than just backing up that.
/home /etc /var/mail or
hi,
i have a ubuntu server running Dovecot imap, how to backup everybody's email?
rsync /home is enough? Thanks,
Angelo
It depens where dovecot are storing the email!
Do you know where is it ?
post the output of
# dovecot -n
[]'sf.rique
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Angelo Chen angelochen...@gmail.comwrote:
hi,
i have a ubuntu server running Dovecot imap, how to backup everybody's
email? rsync /home
Hello all.
I read al this tread and still wondering - what FS best to use to
manage up to 1,5Tb of maildir spool and make a near to real time back up of it?
Firstly i plan to make it all on FreeBSD with UFS2 and use rsync, but
I never rsync such much of space and files.
If using solaris best
Proskurin Kirill schrieb:
Hello all.
I read al this tread and still wondering - what FS best to use to
manage up to 1,5Tb of maildir spool and make a near to real time back up of
it?
Firstly i plan to make it all on FreeBSD with UFS2 and use rsync, but
I never rsync such much of space
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Scott Silva wrote:
What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a
user's mail?
I usually just rsync the /home directories to another server. The
inital sync
can take a while, but it gets faster after there is a base to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rsync seems to be loading information about each file into memory before
comparing the lists of files and doing the actual transfer.
That may be a lot of memory if you have a lot of files.
I sometimes overcome this by rsync’ing each user or domain one at a time.
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 14:42 -0400, Allen Belletti wrote:
I'd like to add my vote here as well; dbox would be *the* feature that
would make me happy. I'm the guy who asked a few weeks ago about ways to
speed access on our GFS clustered mail environment.
Meanwhile, I've done some preliminary
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One option that I would prefer if I were to backup the entire store with
one command would be generating a snapshot of the file system.
And then rsync or cp that snapshot. That way youll always get a
consistent backup and you wont have to worry about how long the
I use the tar/bzip method, and have been wondering about the rsync. All
my users have system accounts on the dovecot server, and use Maildir
format. If i rsync the mail to another box where the users do not have
system accounts, will the ownerships/ permissions etc. be goofed up ?
Calvin Gordon wrote:
I use the tar/bzip method, and have been wondering about the rsync. All
my users have system accounts on the dovecot server, and use Maildir
format. If i rsync the mail to another box where the users do not have
system accounts, will the ownerships/ permissions etc. be
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Scott Silva wrote:
What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a
user's mail?
I usually just rsync the /home directories to another server. The
inital sync
can take a while, but it gets faster after there is a base to work
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 11:00 -0400, Stewart Dean wrote:
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Scott Silva wrote:
What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a
user's mail?
I usually just rsync the /home directories to another server. The
inital sync
Timo Sirainen:
One possibility is to just wait for dbox with multiple-messages-per-file
feature. I can't really say when it'll be ready (or when I'll even start
implementing it), but I know I want to use it myself and some companies
have also recently been asking about it.
Have you
I'd like to add my vote here as well; dbox would be *the* feature that
would make me happy. I'm the guy who asked a few weeks ago about ways to
speed access on our GFS clustered mail environment.
Meanwhile, I've done some preliminary testing with mbox. As expected,
it's vastly faster than the
On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maildir is nice compared to mbox but it really isn’t optimal. In days
where IOPS is the most difficult resource to get into your server (and
dovecot already using close to nothing in terms of CPU time and
memory)
having one file per e-mail
on 10-30-2008 11:42 AM Allen Belletti spake the following:
I'd like to add my vote here as well; dbox would be *the* feature that
would make me happy. I'm the guy who asked a few weeks ago about ways to
speed access on our GFS clustered mail environment.
Meanwhile, I've done some preliminary
On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maildir is nice compared to mbox but it really isnt optimal. In days
where IOPS is the most difficult resource to get into your server (and
dovecot already using close to nothing in terms of CPU time and
memory)
having one file per
Scott Silva wrote:
Rsync will use more memory on large filesystems, but it is usually lighter in
CPU, network, and IO time. But tar gives you multiple backups. To achieve that
with rsync you need the rbackup script or rsnapshot.
Also check snapback2 (similar to tools you mentioned above)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maildir is nice compared to mbox but it really isn’t optimal. In days
where IOPS is the most difficult resource to get into your server (and
dovecot already using close to nothing in terms of CPU time and
memory)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just imagine backing the thing up, exporting 60.000.000 SQL queries.
Not to say importing them again if something should go really wrong.
Actually I'n not even sure it would be faster. When the index files grow
to several gigabytes they kind of loose their purpose.
What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a
user's mail?
I don't think I'm doing anything weird as far as configs go; here's
dovecot -n if it helps:
# 1.1.4: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
protocols: imaps
listen: *, [::]
ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/cert.pem
on 10-29-2008 12:25 PM Neil spake the following:
What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a
user's mail?
I don't think I'm doing anything weird as far as configs go; here's
dovecot -n if it helps:
# 1.1.4: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
protocols: imaps
listen: *,
On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Scott Silva wrote:
What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a
user's mail?
I usually just rsync the /home directories to another server. The
inital sync
can take a while, but it gets faster after there is a base to work
from.
...and
on 10-29-2008 12:47 PM Dave McGuire spake the following:
On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Scott Silva wrote:
What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a
user's mail?
I usually just rsync the /home directories to another server. The
inital sync
can take a while, but it
On Wednesday 29 of October 2008, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Scott Silva wrote:
What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a
user's mail?
I usually just rsync the /home directories to another server. The
inital sync
can take a while, but it
On 29 Oct 2008, at 16:02, Scott Silva wrote:
on 10-29-2008 12:47 PM Dave McGuire spake the following:
On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Scott Silva wrote:
What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a
user's mail?
I usually just rsync the /home directories to another server.
On Oct 29, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a
user's mail?
I usually just rsync the /home directories to another server. The
inital sync
can take a while, but it gets faster after there is a base to work
from.
on 10-29-2008 2:46 PM Neil spake the following:
On 29 Oct 2008, at 16:02, Scott Silva wrote:
on 10-29-2008 12:47 PM Dave McGuire spake the following:
On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Scott Silva wrote:
What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a
user's mail?
I usually
on 10-29-2008 3:18 PM Dave McGuire spake the following:
On Oct 29, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a
user's mail?
I usually just rsync the /home directories to another server. The
inital sync
can take a while,
Scott Silva wrote, On 10/30/2008 12:34 AM:
on 10-29-2008 3:18 PM Dave McGuire spake the following:
On Oct 29, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a
user's mail?
I usually just rsync the /home directories to another
My mail server is running on a Fedora FC5 box. I need to move the
mail server to another computer and so I need to back up my user's
mail and move it. I have found mail in /var/spoo/mail/[users] and in
their home directories there is a 'mail' directory. All users have
an 'Inbox' file that
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