Kolab Mail archiving - software, methods, experiences?

[Carsten Burghardt]

Alex Chejlyk schrieb:
> Here is what I've done.
>
> I use rsync to copy the whole /kolab folder to a backup server. I do 
> this at 2:00am. I do take the server offline from 2:00am to 2:30am.
>
> You can leave kolab up and still use rsync, but you must export the 
> mailbox db. I think the info is on the wiki.
>
> I also have scripts that run from each users workstation to archive 
> Thunderbird's mail. This is a redundant solution, but I find two backups 
> are always better than one.
>
>
> I'm sure there are many much more elegant solutions, but this works for me.
>   
But this is not an archiving solution as you are talking about a backup. 
If the user deletes the mail from the mailbox it will also be gone from 
your backup. You can keep old versions of course but then you have to 
restore the old state and can not simply search through your archive. 
Normally backup and archiving have to be setup in parallel.


Carsten