Silver Salonen wrote:
> On Thursday 27 November 2008 09:50:14 Proskurin Kirill wrote:
>> Hello all!
>>
>> Soon I will deploy a large email server - it will use maildirs and will 
>> be about 1Tb of mail with really many small files.
>>
>> It is any hints to make a backup via bacula of this?
>>
> I think Bacula is quite good for backing up maildirs as they constist of 
> separate files as e-mail messages. I don't think small files are a problem.

I don't think they're a problem either and I also backup a maildir-based
mail server.

However, one thing you may want to be aware of - unless you take
specific steps to avoid it, the maildirs on tape won't necessarily be in
a consistent state.  Obviously this won't affect your IMAP server - but
it does mean that when you restore, metadata like whether or not emails
have been read or replied to and recently received/sent email won't be a
perfect snapshot of how the mailserver looked at any given point in time.


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James Cort

IT Manager
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