I prefer rsync of the entire MailRoot directory to another system, but
you could as easily rsync to an alternate media source on the same
system. By using rsync, you can run it often since rsync operates
incrementally (only the portions of files that have changed are
replicated). I run it every 5 minutes staggered to two different
systems, so changes are up to date about every 2.5 minutes. In order to
do a restore you can simply rsync in the reverse direction, which might
take 10 seconds or less to complete. This method can also be used for
primitive but effective failover to alternate systems.
Jeff
Chad Fleenor wrote:
>I always just tar up /var/MailRoot every night. I have had to restore
>this file before because someone deleted a domain. It took me less than
>5 minutes to have the domain back up and operational, no one knew that
>anything had happened.
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>Thanks
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>Kay Seljeseth wrote:
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>>Is a full directory backup of the mailroot the best way to make a backup of
>>the xmailserver config?
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>>May the message files under the mailbox directories be excluded if not
>>needing a backup of the messages, but still wanting a full config backup?
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>>(did not find any info about this in the readme file?)
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>>Thanks!
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