Hi guys,
I had a HDD fail and had to restore over 1,8 TB of data spread on 6 VPS. (over 650 DA accounts)
The process toked a long time because the backup server was in US the servers in EU also everything was slow because of the multiple email files.
The backup is also very slow because of the email files sometimes cannot finish in one week the full backup.
Anyway. 75% of the content is email files.
I want to ask you about a backup strategy change.
Now i use Admin Backup/Transfer -> All data.
I was thinking to backup (Admin Backup/Transfer) without E-Mail Data and email data to just rsync in one folder without tar.gz (only imap folder for each user)
If i have to restore my server i will restore all the accounts / website data / email will work (no old emails but new one will keep coming) so the restore processes will be a lot faster and get back online a lot more faster.
After accounts restore i will just put the emails back using rsync. This way will be less painful for clients.
Is this a good idea ? there is any script already made that can just rsync the imap folder for each user ignoring the rest of the folder ?
Thank you!
I had a HDD fail and had to restore over 1,8 TB of data spread on 6 VPS. (over 650 DA accounts)
The process toked a long time because the backup server was in US the servers in EU also everything was slow because of the multiple email files.
The backup is also very slow because of the email files sometimes cannot finish in one week the full backup.
Anyway. 75% of the content is email files.
I want to ask you about a backup strategy change.
Now i use Admin Backup/Transfer -> All data.
I was thinking to backup (Admin Backup/Transfer) without E-Mail Data and email data to just rsync in one folder without tar.gz (only imap folder for each user)
If i have to restore my server i will restore all the accounts / website data / email will work (no old emails but new one will keep coming) so the restore processes will be a lot faster and get back online a lot more faster.
After accounts restore i will just put the emails back using rsync. This way will be less painful for clients.
Is this a good idea ? there is any script already made that can just rsync the imap folder for each user ignoring the rest of the folder ?
Thank you!