Re: Best Practice: Backing up Maildirs

From: Kev (no email)
Date: Thu Jul 14 2005 - 12:12:21 EDT

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    Planet X Mail wrote:

    >Use raid 1 mirroring... forget backups. THe chances of BOTH disks going out at
    >the SAME time are VERY few in chances.
    >
    >thats what we use at www.pxmb.com

    RAID is an availability solution *not* a backup solution.

    Scenario :

    power spike that fries your ide controller / disks - raid won't help
    data loss

    User / Administrator error...removes all mail folders by accident - raid
    won't help you recover.

    Kev


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