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Email backup and restore - txt3rob - 07-30-2015
Is there any way i can backup the emails for all my clients and then if i had to do a restore of them?
RE: Email backup and restore - apinto - 07-31-2015
Yes there is a way.
Backup the folder "/var/sentora/vmail"
You can run the command via SSH, this will backup the vmail folder to your /root user folder as "backup_vmail.tar.gz"
Code:
tar -czPf /root/backup_vmail.tar.gz /var/sentora/vmailHope this helps
RE: Email backup and restore - Me.B - 07-31-2015
tar the whole emails is not the right solution. Think more about a differential backup solution, as a lot of clients will keep their email in inbox and content is changing a lot. It's a big problem.
If you want only to mirror it daily think about using rsync, but again you won't be able to hold more than a copy.
M B
RE: Email backup and restore - apinto - 07-31-2015
(07-31-2015, 06:56 AM)Me.B Wrote: tar the whole emails is not the right solution. Think more about a differential backup solution, as a lot of clients will keep their email in inbox and content is changing a lot. It's a big problem.
If you want only to mirror it daily think about using rsync, but again you won't be able to hold more than a copy.
M B
I do agree with you Me.B, however for some simple servers with low email traffic this is just enough.
Ideally you should backup email via another IMAP server, that would be perfect
