Years ago, I set up a backup tool that wrapped rsync. It has faithfully and reliably backed up a dozen hosts and too many TB of data to mention, offsite, automatically saving as many backup points as disk space allows. You're certainly welcome to try it! http://www.effortlessis.com/thisisnotbackupbuddy/ It works on an "ascending powers" basis, EG: 1 day ago, 2 days ago, 4 days ago, 8 days ago, 16 days ago... .... until out of disk space. =) -Ben On Thursday 25 February 2010 10:22:13 am Mike McCarty wrote: > Agnello George wrote: > > The requirement fro backup is not primarily for HDD failure , but > > human error failure . In case one of our user ( eg: the COO with huge > > mailbox size has delete all his certain very important mails, and he > > want to recover them , the contacts us as we are supposed to maintain > > his mail backup for a week, and we should restore his backup immediately > > ) this the main requirement for the backup and that too on the same > > server different partition . > > Have you considered using a snapshot approach? By that, I mean one > which uses hard links to create the "backup", and as files get added/ > modified, the data are copied, and links are created. Usually, one > has a snapshot directory with something like a daily snapshot, and > 24 hourly ones, something like that. > > Mike -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.