From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 13 14:09:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5956B16A400 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:09:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E772543D46 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:09:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB875CB5; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:09:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 76213-03; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:09:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-129-91.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.129.91]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 776675C75; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:09:15 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <44157D0E.4090104@mac.com> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:09:18 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pat Maddox References: <44152AD0.2070803@yourdot-mail.com> <441571F8.7090702@mac.com> <810a540e0603130559l62418490waea54a221f0f1801@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <810a540e0603130559l62418490waea54a221f0f1801@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail backup solution? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:09:17 -0000 Pat Maddox wrote: > On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] >> Your mail hosting provider should have working backups, although it is worth >> checking. > > I have a server running postfix/courier-imap, and I'd like to know how > to make those working backups. I've asked a couple places but haven't > found anything useful. The two most common styles of mailboxes are mbox and maildir, and both of those can be backed up at the filesystem level using dump, tar, or anything else. People using Exchange or Lotus Notes or something else which has a proprietary backend database require special software to generate usable backups, but what else would you expect? -- -Chuck