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Re: Backup of an courier-imap mailarchive



Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On my "business" mailserver (courier-imap) I have 43 users (some of them
> as On-Line-Archive), together over  42.000  mailfolders  and  17.000.000
> messages stored and each month  we  get  1800  mailfolders  and  150.000
> messages more.  The total volume is arround 180 GByte. (real not blocks)
> 
> Currently I run a daily plus weekly cronjob with a selfmade script which
> check first the /cur/ directories and if it does not match a  previously
> created MD5 + directory listing it will backuped.  Daily incremental and
> weekly full.

Why did you prefer such solution over something like dirvish for
example? It does rsync incremental backup every day, and I don't believe
it would take 100% of your CPU.

Thomas


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