Re: Email account backups

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>> Please accept my sincere apology if I am going about asking these
>> questions the wrong way!
>
> Accepted.
>
>> Our company has been liquidated and has only  a
>> hand full of staff running services to our customers. My question is
>> that we have a mail server, Squirrelmail with Virtual Exim.... I would
>> like to know are there any documentation that could help me to backup
>> all the user accounts? and how I could restore them in a case of total
>> failure?
>
> The actual mail accounts are not in SquirrelMail but in Exim, so you have
> to read up on Exim to backup that.
>
> SquirrelMail does keep some internal files though, such as configuration,
> user preferences and user address books. Find the SquirrelMail
> configuration directory (it's usually named "config/" but the path might
> vary depending on how your SquirrelMail was installed) and grep like
> this:
>
> grep "\(attachment\|data\)_dir" * | \
> grep -v "\(conf.pl\|config_default.php\)"
>
> This should give you a hint of where SquirrelMail keeps its files.
> "data_dir" is the most important of the two, since "attachment_dir" is a
> cache of attached files. Back up all SquirrelMail files, especially the
> config directory and the files in the "data_dir" directory.

Oh, and don't forget to restore the data to a test system. Backups are
worthless if they can't be used for restoration.

--
Fredrik Jervfors
The SquirrelMail Project
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http://squirrelmail.org/donations.php


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