Mail Server's BackUp Tool ?

[Martin Hepworth]

Hi

Depends on what files you want to backup...

I backup my MailScanner machine with Amanda (www.amanda.org) and make sure
all my O/S is documented so I can do a bare metal restore fairly quickly.

Depending on quickly you need to restore the service I'd look at RAID ed
disks and possibly a clustering of MailScanner hosts.

There's also some nice tools for sending out an O/S config to machines -
there was a recent Slashdot question on that, have a look at some of the
tools mentioned there.

Think risks, what are risks, what's the impact of that risk happening (along
with timescales - a 5 minute outage might not have big impact but a 2 week
may have a larger ramification), what is the likelihood of the risk (theft
might be low, but disk failure could be high) then think of the appropriate
controls (procedures and technologies) to reduce that risk.



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Martin Hepworth 
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Muhammad Nauman
> Sent: 11 May 2006 07:42
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Mail Server's BackUp Tool ?
> 
> Hello there All,
> 
> This seams to be one great helping Forum 4 me - thankx 2 All.
> 
> 1. After making a Good Stable Mailing Server - i m now looking for Good
> Procedure to Maintain My Mails Backup.
> 
>    In case i lost my DISK - due to crash or any other reason - i may have
> a
> system saving my mail .
> 
> 
> 2. And Can i take Image of My - Installed and Configured OS  at some place
> toooo ?
> 
> so that  - I do'nt have to do all the configuration again and again ?
> 
> Thankx in advace
> 
> 
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