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From: ostap <ostap@ukrpost.net>
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Subject: Re: /var/mail backup
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:23:21 +0200
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well, about a hundred

Mikel wrote:
> 
> 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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