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Title: How to bakup & restore the email on a working system?
Post by: zeong on August 21, 2005, 05:25:51 PM

1) How can I backup the email & restore to another working system?

2) Can the user backup & restore his own mail?


Thanks.

Title: How to bakup & restore the email on a working system?
Post by: Saverio on August 21, 2005, 11:27:35 PM

Those are Maildirs so you should just be able to tar-up the folders and copy them to the new server.

Title: How to bakup & restore the email on a working system?
Post by: Michiel on August 22, 2005, 02:36:26 AM

Quote from: "Saverio"

Those are Maildirs so you should just be able to tar-up the folders and copy them to the new server.

Careful about the file ownerships though. Depending on how you set up the new server you might wish to run "chown -R user:user" on the copied Maildirs.

Michiel

Title: How to bakup & restore the email on a working system?
Post by: djhomeless on August 22, 2005, 11:29:14 AM

Wouldn't the maildirs be packed up as a part of the normal backup/restore process?

Geoffrey

Title: How to bakup & restore the email on a working system?
Post by: zeong on August 22, 2005, 06:04:58 PM

Quote from: "Saverio"

Those are Maildirs so you should just be able to tar-up the folders and copy them to the new server.

Thanks.
But can it keep the mails on the working server?