The SME server we've been running for 5 months now without a hitch decided to trash its hard drive during my two week holiday and we dont have an up to date backup! Now I've rebuilt the server with a new hard drive and begun to recreate the structure with all the "optional extras" we'd installed.
Thing is I've plugged the dud hd into a Win XP machine and using a freebie driver and command line mount util I've been able to ascertain that everyone's e-mail is still accessible and can in theory be copied off onto the XP machine and from there back onto the rebuilt server.
I'm having problems though due to the long filenames used to store the messages - which I got around by copying them straight into an archive file. I then unpack that onto the SME box and transfer the content to the appropriate user folder and change the ownership. Long laborious and not working!! For some reason gunzip wont now unzip any archive files, it worked for the first one but point blank refuses to unzip any more.
Anyone got any suggestions for more efficient and reliable method of doing the transfer - apart from more regular backups
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