By what means do you backup your mailscanner things?

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Ken A
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 12:08 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: By what means do you backup your mailscanner things?
> 
> rsync is a nice tool for backup purposes. It saves time and bandwidth
> and has lots of cool switches for backup jobs like this. Our backup jobs
> all run from one server and look like this:
> 
> day=`date +"%u"`
> outpath="/backup/daily/$day"
> limit="--bwlimit=1500"
> 
> # mailscanner box
> server="mailscannerbox"
> paths="/etc/mail /etc/MailScanner /var/spool/rbldnsd /usr/local/src"
> for path in $paths;
> do rsync -az --timeout=240 --log-format="%f %l" --delete $limit \
> $server:/$path $outpath/$server;
> done;
> 
> # other server
> server="otherbox"
> ....
> 
> 
> The backup box is loaded with disk space and is secure behind a
> firewall, since the box has to have ssh keys to access the other boxes
> as root. The advantage is that all file transfers are encrypted and this
> centralizes all the backup jobs into a few scripts on one box.
> 
> Ken
> 

And can be very secure when used with keychains:
	http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/index.xml 

Also see http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc2/ 


Just setup keychains between the systems and then add 

rsync -az -e --timeout=240 --log-format="%f %l" --delete $limit 

Steve
Stephen Swaney
Fort Systems Ltd.
stephen.swaney at fsl.com
www.fsl.com