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Old 06-20-2017, 12:22 AM   #1
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I have my email server running smoothly, and I hope securely... The Box that I am running it on is decent in regards to specs but my HDD's are maybe, older? And maybe less reliable. At this time I am in no position to financially buy a new HDD but I do have a decent USB HD that I believe to be stable.
Currently I have 1 HDD into 3 partitions... /swap, / and /home where /home shares both users and their emails in their Maildir/.

Long story short, with the idea of having these email accounts and emails for years to come would there be any benefit to saving or at least mounting the emails (sent and received) on my USB HDD?
 
Old 06-20-2017, 05:32 AM   #2
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You could mount it and duplicate /home to it (like RAID1). This way you get a failsafe if the HDD fails.
I run my mailserver with a RAID1 setup precisely for this reason.

Edit : don't forget though : raid isn't a backup.
 
Old 06-20-2017, 09:32 AM   #3
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I have my email server running smoothly, and I hope securely... The Box that I am running it on is decent in regards to specs but my HDD's are maybe, older? And maybe less reliable. At this time I am in no position to financially buy a new HDD
I have a Western Digital Caviar 640GB 3.5" SATA disk here, date July 2008. I was using it in my system until last year when I had a small windfall which allowed me to build a new system. If the postage to your part of the world isn't too expensive you're welcome to it if you like. It's been idle here for the past 16 months or so but it was working fine for me for years. I can run a test on it first and I'll probably have to run dev random over it as well since it was a backup to my data disk.
 
Old 06-23-2017, 09:44 PM   #4
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I have a Western Digital Caviar 640GB 3.5" SATA disk here, date July 2008. I was using it in my system until last year when I had a small windfall which allowed me to build a new system. If the postage to your part of the world isn't too expensive you're welcome to it if you like. It's been idle here for the past 16 months or so but it was working fine for me for years. I can run a test on it first and I'll probably have to run dev random over it as well since it was a backup to my data disk.
That is very generous of you... No need to do such a thing, I'd feel completely terrible to have nothing in return. Made me smile, thank you.
 
Old 06-24-2017, 12:11 PM   #5
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That is very generous of you... No need to do such a thing, I'd feel completely terrible to have nothing in return. Made me smile, thank you.
Well before I saw your post I had picked up the disk for the first time in months and asked myself what am I going to do with that! Could sell it on ebay I suppose but a lot of sellers seem to have been stung on ebay lately, so I thought I'd give it to the next person I came across who needed it!
 
  


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