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Date:      Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:18:16 -0500
From:      Mikel <mikel@ocsinternet.com>
To:        ostap <ostap@ukrpost.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /var/mail backup
Message-ID:  <3ABB4D18.3C480DF@ocsinternet.com>
References:  <3ABB2A0A.AF20BB18@ukrpost.net>

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Ok I have a question for you how many user mailboxes are we talking
about?

Cheers,
Mikel

ostap wrote:

> hello
> i'm interested in a way of making backups of a /var/mail directory
> on a running freebsd mail server, or may be just keeping it in sync
> with some another dir to prevent data loss in case of hdd failure.
> the obvious problem is that this information is constantly changing
> and may be file locks or something like that should be implemented
> during backup/
> syncing procedure. will the tool like rsync do this job correcly?
> can anyone make this clear to me?
>
> thank you
>
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