Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:09:18 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail backup solution? Message-ID: <44157D0E.4090104@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <810a540e0603130559l62418490waea54a221f0f1801@mail.gmail.com> References: <44152AD0.2070803@yourdot-mail.com> <441571F8.7090702@mac.com> <810a540e0603130559l62418490waea54a221f0f1801@mail.gmail.com>
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Pat Maddox wrote: > On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> 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
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