Comments on: How should I backup my users mail in ubuntu? http://krizzna.web.id/2010/03/how-should-i-backup-my-users-mail-in-ubuntu/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-should-i-backup-my-users-mail-in-ubuntu my personal weblogs, tips and trick, network fundamental, information technology, web programming, desktop programming and many more can found here Mon, 14 May 2012 21:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: edman274 http://krizzna.web.id/2010/03/how-should-i-backup-my-users-mail-in-ubuntu/#comment-962 edman274 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:02:42 +0000 http://krizzna.web.id/linux/how-should-i-backup-my-users-mail-in-ubuntu/#comment-962 Set up a cron script to copy everything in /var/mail to an external drive (be it tape, internal drive or portable drive), and set it up to do this daily. Webmin makes this pretty easy. You do sudo apt-get install webmin and then to get to it you go to https://server:10000 where server is the IP or hostname of whichever server it is you're managing. From there, you would've entered in your username and address and then you'd navigate to the left hand pane and chosen "System - Scheduled cron Jobs". Choose "Create a new cron job" and run through the steps. The actual command for copying the mail would be something like cp -r /var/mail/ /dev/sdx1 where sdx1 is whichever drive you're copying the mail into. You could copy it into an NFS drive, but that's beyond the scope of this answer. Set up a cron script to copy everything in /var/mail to an external drive (be it tape, internal drive or portable drive), and set it up to do this daily.

Webmin makes this pretty easy. You do sudo apt-get install webmin and then to get to it you go to https://server:10000 where server is the IP or hostname of whichever server it is you’re managing. From there, you would’ve entered in your username and address and then you’d navigate to the left hand pane and chosen “System – Scheduled cron Jobs”. Choose “Create a new cron job” and run through the steps. The actual command for copying the mail would be something like

cp -r /var/mail/ /dev/sdx1

where sdx1 is whichever drive you’re copying the mail into. You could copy it into an NFS drive, but that’s beyond the scope of this answer.

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