Summary
In this chapter, we described how to back up e-mail and the mail server configuration. We started off with an introduction to what you should consider worth backing up and ended with a sophisticated solution using automated full and incremental backups.
In particular, we described the process using the dump command, and how to take copies of our data. We used the restore command to recover a complete file system and selective files.
This chapter guides 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, the different backup and restore methods, and a procedure to take automatic daily backups.
After implementing all the procedures we have shown you in this chapter, ...
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