Mail back-up system

Olivier Nicole on at cs.ait.ac.th
Thu Feb 9 19:03:43 PST 2006


> > Since every mail is stored in its own file (versus concatenation in Mbox),
> > it's much cheaper to backup. Just copy all the new/touched files, not all
> > your mail.
> Yes, that's a good point.  Because these files are *already* backups,
> I assumed that they wouldn't be backed up themselves, but that may
> well not be the case.

Actually, as I have an Amanda server floating around, I also do tape
archive of the back-up :))

Olivier


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