Exclude mail folder from backup for all accounts

Any luck finding out how to do this?

Thanks for the advice not to do this, but the time to restore emails is drastic when a restore is needed. We would prefer to back up email another way. Most emails are just junk people don't care about anyways that will take hours to restore that could be utilized to get accounts back quickly.

 

Thanks I read it but I still don't understand exactly.

Can you give an example?

1. I would look at the back up directory.
2. Check the server to see if each username is still there.
3. Then I would add the /home/username/ to the back up exclude file?

This is better then just deleting the account's directory because you don't have to wait for the folder to be deleted?

This is the best way as of now right?

 

Any luck here ? My clients are advised that I'm not responsible for email lost. They have to backup them email on their own. The problem is that I have client with 10GB of email. I was really tolerant from many years, but my backup process now take 16 hours to complete. So I want to remove email from backup. My only problem is that like it's being already stipulated I do want a full restore to at least reinstall mailbox with password. In the event that my server crash and I need to reinstall 130 clients, I don't want to add back all them email account, but I will not take care of them email data.

From the inside of every account I see this :

.Archive
courierimapkeywords
courierimapsubscribed
courierimapuiddb
courierpop3dsizelist
cur
dovecot-acl-list
dovecot.index
dovecot.index.cache
dovecot.index.log
dovecot.index.log.2
dovecot-keywords
dovecot.list.index
dovecot.list.index.log
dovecot.mailbox.log
dovecot-quota
dovecot-uidlist
dovecot-uidvalidity
dovecot-uidvalidity.5603358b
.Drafts
.Junk
maildirsize
new
.Notes
.Sent
.spam
subscriptions
tmp
.Trash


what is needed inside of this to make sure it recreate the account ? Do I just add "mail" to cpbackup-exclude.conf or do I have to add

mail/*/.Archive
mail/*/courerimapkeywords
...

and just omit certain important files to make sure it recreate the account ?

Thank you.

 

Yeah exactly, it just makes restoring back ups take an extra 10-15 hours on a full server. I would rather have an easy way for customers to back up mail or a manual way in the WHM. To do it in the backups makes a bad situation horrible.

And no I haven't found a way to block it yet. rsync doesn't allow the formats that email uses to name files. The names are like 124.554.username.344.mail some crazy stuff like this, I can't tell rsync to ignore.