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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