On 6/30/2014 5:28 PM, deoren wrote:
> I'm still pretty new to running a mail server, but one thing I've come
> to appreciate over the years is a good backup strategy. Since I have
> always run my own servers for practice and for personal use I don't have
> access to Enterprise backup solutions.
On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:52:56 +0200
Jiri Bourek wrote:
> On 1.7.2014 00:28, deoren wrote:
> > I'm still pretty new to running a mail server, but one thing I've
> > come to appreciate over the years is a good backup strategy. Since
> > I have always run my own servers for practice and for personal
On Tuesday 01 July 2014 15:59:09 Thomas Harold did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On 7/1/2014 4:48 AM, Infoomatic wrote:
> >> If you actually want to preserve those increments (as opposed to
> >> just keeping an rsync mirror up-to-date), I like rdiff-backup. It
> >> handles maildirs well because of t
On 2014-07-01 00:28, deoren wrote:
> I'm still pretty new to running a mail server, but one thing I've come
> to appreciate over the years is a good backup strategy. Since I have
> always run my own servers for practice and for personal use I don't
> have access to Enterprise backup solutions. Bec
On 7/1/2014 4:48 AM, Infoomatic wrote:
>> If you actually want to preserve those increments (as opposed to just keeping
>> an rsync mirror up-to-date), I like rdiff-backup. It handles maildirs well
>> because of the one-message-per-file design.
> Second that. It's great tool that keeps an actual s
On 6/30/2014 6:28 PM, deoren wrote:
> I'm still pretty new to running a mail server, but one thing I've come
> to appreciate over the years is a good backup strategy. Since I have
> always run my own servers for practice and for personal use I don't have
> access to Enterprise backup solutions. Bec
On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 02:06:06PM +0200, Jiri Bourek wrote:
> On 1.7.2014 13:45, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote:
> > i usually exclude the files "dovecot.index*".
> > [...]
> > On the most common situations, you'll need to restore just one or
> > other mailbox, so rebuilding those indexes wont kill the
On 01.07.2014 00:28, deoren wrote:
I'm still pretty new to running a mail server, but one thing I've come
to appreciate over the years is a good backup strategy. Since I have
always run my own servers for practice and for personal use I don't
have access to Enterprise backup solutions. Because
On Tuesday 01 July 2014 09:55:37 Leonardo Rodrigues did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Em 01/07/14 10:06, Eliezer Croitoru escreveu:
> > On 07/01/2014 03:06 PM, Jiri Bourek wrote:
> >> That really depends, rebuilding indexes can increase your downtime
> >> for hours, so it may be better to pay a bit f
On 1.7.2014 15:55, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote:
Em 01/07/14 10:06, Eliezer Croitoru escreveu:
On 07/01/2014 03:06 PM, Jiri Bourek wrote:
That really depends, rebuilding indexes can increase your downtime for
hours, so it may be better to pay a bit for extra storage space instead
of not being paid
Em 01/07/14 10:06, Eliezer Croitoru escreveu:
On 07/01/2014 03:06 PM, Jiri Bourek wrote:
That really depends, rebuilding indexes can increase your downtime for
hours, so it may be better to pay a bit for extra storage space instead
of not being paid at all by your customers.
Building the index
On Tuesday 01 July 2014 08:06:06 Jiri Bourek did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On 1.7.2014 13:45, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote:
> > Em 01/07/14 00:16, Charles Cazabon escreveu:
> >> deoren wrote:
> >>> Right now I'm using LVM snapshots + tarballs for daily backups, but
> >>> I'd like to get better cover
On 07/01/2014 03:06 PM, Jiri Bourek wrote:
That really depends, rebuilding indexes can increase your downtime for
hours, so it may be better to pay a bit for extra storage space instead
of not being paid at all by your customers.
Building the index as far as I remember doesn't cost in downtime b
Em 01/07/14 09:06, Jiri Bourek escreveu:
And on a worst case scenario, where i would need to restore the
whole server and mailboxes, things will already be screwed, so knowing
that dovecot would be harder on I/O for rebuilding the indexes will be
just another problem :)
That really depe
On 1.7.2014 13:45, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote:
Em 01/07/14 00:16, Charles Cazabon escreveu:
deoren wrote:
Right now I'm using LVM snapshots + tarballs for daily backups, but
I'd like to get better coverage for incremental changes that occur
throughout the day. The size of existing content is low
Em 01/07/14 00:16, Charles Cazabon escreveu:
deoren wrote:
Right now I'm using LVM snapshots + tarballs for daily backups, but
I'd like to get better coverage for incremental changes that occur
throughout the day. The size of existing content is low, but (small)
changes are frequent.
If you ac
> If you actually want to preserve those increments (as opposed to just keeping
> an rsync mirror up-to-date), I like rdiff-backup. It handles maildirs well
> because of the one-message-per-file design.
Second that. It's great tool that keeps an actual sync
(rsync-based) of the data-directory and
deoren wrote:
>
> Right now I'm using LVM snapshots + tarballs for daily backups, but
> I'd like to get better coverage for incremental changes that occur
> throughout the day. The size of existing content is low, but (small)
> changes are frequent.
If you actually want to preserve those increme
On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 09:41:25 +1000 Bob Miller wrote
> check out rsnapshot. Tried, tested, and true on my systems for just
> short of a decade now...
+1 for rsnapshot. With the config file you can determine how many backups
for different days that you want to keep.
eg from the co
Quoting Bob Miller :
Hi,
Suggestions and warnings are most welcome.
Thanks!
Since you're using maildir, you might want to check rsync out as well,
especially with --link-dest. In short, you call rsync on your backup
machine like this:
rsync --link-dest=previous-backup-dir source new-backup-
Hi,
> >
> > Suggestions and warnings are most welcome.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> Since you're using maildir, you might want to check rsync out as well,
> especially with --link-dest. In short, you call rsync on your backup
> machine like this:
>
> rsync --link-dest=previous-backup-dir source new-bac
On 1.7.2014 00:28, deoren wrote:
I'm still pretty new to running a mail server, but one thing I've come
to appreciate over the years is a good backup strategy. Since I have
always run my own servers for practice and for personal use I don't have
access to Enterprise backup solutions. Because of t
I'm still pretty new to running a mail server, but one thing I've come
to appreciate over the years is a good backup strategy. Since I have
always run my own servers for practice and for personal use I don't have
access to Enterprise backup solutions. Because of that I usually just
fall back to
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