Linux Email: Set up and Run a Small Office Email Server
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Chapter 10:
Backing Up Your System
In order to prevent catastrophic loss of service in case of a major hardware (or even software!) malfunction you absolutely need to have a backup. The backup is supposed to let you restore the software (or rather: the software's configuration) and other data that you need to re-establish your service. This includes the users' mails, the system's mail queue, and their authentication data among other things.

This chapter will guide you through the process of backing up and restoring your server's precious data. It shows why to back up, what data to back up, and the different backup and restore methods.
 

  • Chapter 10: Backing Up Your System
     
    • What to Back Up
    • What not to Back Up
    • Email
      • Maildir and Backup
      • Incremental and Full Backups for the Mailboxes
      • Storage Considerations
      • Backing Up E-Mail
        • Full Backup
        • Incremental Dumps
      • Restore
        • Interactive Restore
        • Non-Interactive Restore Across the Network
    • Configutations
      • Backing Up Configurations on Backup Media
      • Restoring the Configuration
      • Subversion
      • Installing Subversion
      • Configuring Basic Subversion Functionality
        • Creating the Repositories Directory
        • Creating a Configuration for svnserve
      • Repositories
        • Creation
        • Configuration
        • Hooks
      • Preparing the svn Client
      • Importing Configuration
        • Setting Properties
        • Committing Changes
        • Maintaing a ChangeLog
        • Rollback
    • Summary
    BOOK DETAILS
      PPaperback, 295 pages
    Released: July 2005
    ISBN: 190481137X
    Authors: Alistair McDonald,
    Carl Taylor,
    Magnus Bäck, David Rusenko, Ralf Hildebrandt, Patrick Ben Koetter     
     
     

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Introduction
    1: Linux and E-Mail Basics 
    2: Setting Up Postfix
    3: Incoming Mail with POP and IMAP
    4: Providing Webmail Access   Free Chapter
    5: Securing Your Installation  
    6: Getting Started with Procmail
    7: Advanced Procmail
    8: Busting Spam with SpamAssassin
    9: Antivirus Protection
    10: Backing Up Your System
    Index

     




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