[CentOS] Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)

Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob at suespammers.org
Wed Dec 7 19:44:27 UTC 2005


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On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:51:02AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 09:00, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
> > > >And how do you plan on backuping that ? An array of DLT units ?
> > > 
> > > Can we stop Trolling here ?
> > 
> > Who the heck is trolling ? I'm asking a valid question, for a
> > problem that concerns me. I run several e-mail servers, and the
> > main problem I have with those is backup.
> 
> An rsync based backup scheme works nicely against maildir format
> although you may have to break it up into several runs since
> rsync has some per-file memory overhead. 

I know this may sound old fashioned, but what is wrong with rdump
for that ? I think that for this particular case, dump/rdump would
be a better option (backup).

I like and use rsync for a lot of other stuff, so I have nothing against
it.

[]s

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Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org>
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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