[olug] Polls and Mail Servers and Backup Solutions

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Can any registered www.olug.org user create a poll?

Ask Brian!

> What do most people run for Mail Servers? Sendmail, Postfix, Qmail,
> Courire, other.

Exim + Courier IMAP/POP3 (for Maildir++ folders) or UofW IMAP/POP3 (for
old-fasioned mbox folders)

Sendmail: yuk.  Be prepared to buy several crates of Tylenol.
Postfix: fairly nice but not as flexible as Exim; very fast
Qmail: unsupported by author; missing *tons* of functionality in the core
   distribution compared to Sendmail, Exim, or Postfix.  Much of that can
   be "fixed" by patches, but I'm hesitant to put *so* many patches that
   may not be well tested together in one place.

> Has anyone had problems with running Redhat 7.1 Sendmail with 2 NIC
> cards?

Nope - I tend to avoid both.

> What type of backup solutions do the server administrators that listen
> and support this list run?

Old-fasioned tar straight to tape :)  I'm using Ecrix drives.

> I run mirroring and also LoneTar backup and recovery.
> With LoneTar and Redhat 6.2 or 7.0 you get backup and
> full file verification and you can restore your server from
> 2 floppy diskettes and your most recent full tape backup.
> I have IDE HD and SCSI tape backup.
> I use Ecrix tape drive with NT, SCO, and Redhat.
>
> Has anyone locally or on the list used
>
> Arkeia, ArcServe, Amanda, or others.
>
> Do most administrators do a full backup or incremental backup each day?

Full backup: don't miss a thing that way and our entire data set fits on
one tape.

We also have a backup server off-site using rsync & ssh to mirror our
file, web, mail, and DNS servers.

-- 

Phil


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