Backup/Restore about mailinabox HOT 11 CLOSED

Hello! No that's on the TODO. :)

All of the user data is in /home/user-data, so backing up just those files is sufficient. Though the system services (dovecot, postfix, etc.) should be stopped first to prevent getting things in the middle of an inconsistent state.

Happy to accept a pull request.

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Thinking out loud. Would it make sense to include a weekly AWS glacier
image of the user-data folder as an option?
On Mar 18, 2014 9:03 AM, "Joshua Tauberer" [email protected] wrote:

Hello! No that's on the TODO. :)

All of the user data is in /home/user-data, so backing up just those files
is sufficient. Though the system services (dovecot, postfix, etc.) should
be stopped first to prevent getting things in the middle of an inconsistent
state.

Happy to accept a pull request.

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Absolutely.

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I might be able to hack that out as a pull request.
On Mar 18, 2014 9:07 AM, "Joshua Tauberer" [email protected] wrote:

Absolutely.

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Tarsnap would be cool as backup-service.

[1] https://www.tarsnap.com/
[2] http://www.bishnet.net/tim/tarsnap/run.sh

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Fyi, the problem I'm trying to solve right now is how to make backups that are incremental & encrypted....

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Update: A backup script is now running daily and is generating encrypted, incremental backup files. Now we just need to get the files copied to a backup location.

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@JoshData Any update on this? I would love to have a backup solution that works out of the box.
Do you have anything that your looking forward to use? e.g. Tarsnap, S3, etc?

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Then farthest I got was having a script get executed after the backup is done making files:

https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox/blob/master/management/backup.py#L200

In /home/user-data/backup/after-backup I have:

#!/bin/bash
rsync -e "sshpass -p my_password ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no" -avz $STORAGE_ROOT/backup/encrypted/ my_usernam@my_backup_host:

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Closing in favor of #262.

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I know you've closed this in favor of #262 but I thought I'd add a comment with what I tried to sync the encrypted backups with S3 using the AWS CLI tools (see: http://aws.amazon.com/cli/)

First I installed PIP:

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
python get-pip.py

Then install the AWS tools:

pip install awscli

Now we can test by doing either aws help or aws configure

When doing aws configure I found it worked better to leave the default region and output format prompts to none.

Now I can just do:

aws s3 sync /home/user-data/backup/encrypted s3://my-mail-backup-bucket/nightly

Hope that helps someone.

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