Re: Backup from huge Maildirs

Hello Marc,

Am 2007-09-08 19:45:32, schrieb Marc Schiffbauer:
> Do not use reiserfs if you do not want to trash your data.
>
> I had several bad experiences with reiserfs.

Me too!

On etime I had nearly 60% of my (at this time) 5 mio files trashed to ZERO size and NOW try to recover...

> We used it as spool storage for a really huge MTA delivering about 80 millions
> mails per month. So many million files were created and deleted each day.
>
> The filesystem got corrupted from time to time without having had
> system crashes or the like.
>
> I suggest using XFS for such things. Its really fast and on this
> particular MTA the spool storage is stable since we switched to XFS.

I am already thinking on pulling my Maildir entirely out of my FileServer into a stand-alone Mailserver, since it seems, I can get 19"/1U machines for less then 2000 Euro (using 3 WD360GD for System and 3 WD740GD for the Maildir in where each is a Raid1 + Hotfix)

But then I do not know, how to handel the fetchmail and procmail recipes which are locate in the ${HOME} of the FileServer. Maybe I run a script each minute and check for changes which then use rsync to transfer the files to the Mailserver...

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day

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