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A. Khattri wrote: |
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> You mean a backup MX or just backing up the email? |
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> Normally vpopmail stores email for xyz.com under |
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> /home/vpopmail/domains/xyz.com/ |
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Are you sure that's the default? I don't remember telling vpopmail to do anything out of |
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the ordinary and my virtual domain mails are under /var/vpopmail/domains. |
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I like that about vpopmail... it just maintains pretty much the same folder structure that |
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a regular mail user on the system would have, so I can go right to it. |
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About the only thing I don't like about vpopmail is that it uses mysql to store its |
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user/domain information. So anytime mysql has one of its "problematic" upgrades, I risk |
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losing all mail service until it's resolved. Seems like they could have just used BDB or |
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even a flat file for that stuff, though I suppose the latter might be hella slow. |
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Anyway, to the OP I would say, I just have a nightly rsnaphot backup running that grabs |
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large chunks of /var (along with all of /etc, /home, and some of /usr). So all my mail is |
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backed up without doing anything fancy (I also backup mysql and postgres in there). My |
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worst case would be losing the drive at about eleven or twelve at night, which would lose |
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me a whole day's mail. |
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Of course, then there's the time it would take me to get a replacement mail server |
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responding (ugh) but that a whole other story. |
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