-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2008-09-23 at 17:40 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I guess the way around that is to have two rsync jobs being one for the mail directories and the other for only the document directories?
Or more frequent backups. Those are the cases where raid does not help: both copies of the document wold be broken.
Restoring email queues is not so simple, anyway, maybe you could end resending mail already sent. I think that often it is better to leave the email as lost and resend from the client if needed. This is a situation for which RAID is better, IMO.
A different thing would be a pop/imap server. What would be different?
A sending smtp server does not stores many emails, they are sent as soon as possible. There is almost no point in backup. A receiving server can store millions of emails.
I ask as it is actually a one person IMAP Dovecot, Postfix,SpamAssassin, Procamil mailserver store I aim to setup. The main purpose of the mail server is to lose as little email, if any email, at all. How can I ensure that no received mail since the last mirror/backup is not lost? Resending email already sent is fine, losing email already received is unacceptable as I will not know who to ask to resend?
Then the alternative is to store every email, as soon as it arrives, on two disks or servers. Notice that, as both are running continuosly, any of them could break as often as the other. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjZRRUACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VOuwCeKIBZ6QbjbBmLzcEsU5lEBp1C hBsAn0caC47vWvJor99jjEA/lTjQS6ez =Y3hE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org