backing up emails

Hi there,

i want to back up my emails but i was wondering whether i have to stop postfix and/or dovecot while the synchronization takes place. If so what would be the best solution in order to minimize the service down time ?

Thank you very much

Regards

 

How do you back up your emails? I don't think you have to stop a service if you use rsync or tar.gz.

 

thanks for the reply Falko,

i am using tartarus that uses bzip2

 

I don't know tartarus, but I don't think you have to stop email.

 

Thanks,

if you want to check out tartarus : http://wertarbyte.de/tartarus.shtml . It is recommended by hetzner