On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Fredrik Jervfors <jervfors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. Or SquirrelMail could be configured to store user preferences and address books in a database. Using Fredrik's method to test, you can see if a database is being used like this: grep "\(addrbook\|prefs\)_dsn" * | \ grep -v "\(conf.pl\|config_default.php\)" Keep in mind that if you have user data in a database, some plugins might still put some user data in the data directory, so it's best to back up both the database and the data directory. -- Paul Lesniewski SquirrelMail Team Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail! http://squirrelmail.org/donate_paul_lesniewski.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;226879339;13503038;l? http://clk.atdmt.com/CRS/go/247765532/direct/01/ ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
