Courier Mail Backup

**DanHorniblow** · January 13th, 2012

Hi, I am running a mail server with courier and postfix.

I want to regularly backup all email mailboxes within courier.

Any suggestions?

Cheers Dan

**HermanAB** · January 13th, 2012

rsync of course.

**DanHorniblow** · January 14th, 2012

Originally Posted by HermanAB

rsync of course.

Don't I need another server to do that tho?

**volkswagner** · January 14th, 2012

You can rsync to another machine, a separate folder, second hard drive, or to an external hard drive.

Perhaps you can add some specifics of what you would like to do and where the backups will reside.

**DanHorniblow** · January 14th, 2012

Ok, Well I have bought a VPS and it is going to be hosting a number of websites plus email going to those domains.

I would like regular backups of "/var/vmail/" and "/var/www/" to be saved in to a compressed format and then maybe automatically FTP'd else where.

That would be my perfect solution in my mind.

I would also like to backup MySQL databases what is the best method for that?

Thanks Dan