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Re: Low Budget Backups
From: email builder <emailbuilder88_at_nospam>Date: Sat Dec 03 2011 - 05:46:39 GMT
To: "postfix-users@postfix.org" <postfix-users@postfix.org>
>>>> Does anyone have any low-end/low-budget backup
>>>> suggestions for user mail
>>>> spools? Consider hobby type scenarios or small businesses
>>>> with a cheap single
>>>> hard drive rented (dedicated/shared) server where there may
>>>> not be budget for
>>>> another server or paid backup service.
>>>>
>>>> My thought was if data size wasn't too big, you can use
>>>> duplicity[1]
>>>> and FTP the data to one of the few free "cloud"/online
>>>> backup services
>>>> (I think filesonic allows reasonable FTP access level, memopal
>>>> and box.net seem
>>>> to have webdav access, although might still be buggy to work
>>>> with duplicity....
>>>> others I looked at either didn't seem to have webdav or FTP or
>>>> had limits
>>>> that were too restrictive in their free accounts). Or just FTP
>>>> stuff to an old
>>>> file server in your office that's not used for anything except
>>>> backups, but
>>>> this depends on connectivity and consistent uptime.
>>>>
>>>> Or to again use duplicity with a cheap paid FTP account like
>>>> at rsync.net.
>>>>
>>>> Are there other ways of achieving this?
>>>
>>> Built into postfix; examine always_bcc and its variants.
>>
>> Thanks that's a good thing to keep in mind, but I'm not looking to
>> archive all incoming messages, rather the current state of the users'
>> mail spools.
>>
>> No other people have systems for doing this?
>>
>
> look here for in idea
>
> http://www.arschkrebs.de/postfix/postfix_archive.shtml
Thanks, but I fail to see how that is in reply to my last statement
that I want to back up the current state of user mail spools. Backing
up all email as it is incoming is a different question.
Thanks anyway