From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 13 16:13:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7117516A434 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:13:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) Received: from mail.united-ware.com (am-productions.biz [69.61.164.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B219443D46 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:13:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (am-productions.biz [69.61.164.22]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.united-ware.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2DGQXmW063513 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:26:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) From: Anish Mistry To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:16:36 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <44152AD0.2070803@yourdot-mail.com> <44157D0E.4090104@mac.com> <810a540e0603130624r1ff51928m49826c9c12886937@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <810a540e0603130624r1ff51928m49826c9c12886937@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2216054.GIpzDxOAyB"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200603131116.45840.mistry.7@osu.edu> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.1 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, MYFREEBSD2 autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on mail.united-ware.com X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88/1326/Sat Mar 11 15:33:54 2006 on mail.united-ware.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Pat Maddox Subject: Re: mail backup solution? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:13:58 -0000 --nextPart2216054.GIpzDxOAyB Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 13 March 2006 09:24, Pat Maddox wrote: > On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > Pat Maddox wrote: > > > On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > > > [ ... ] > > > > >> Your mail hosting provider should have working backups, > > >> although it is worth checking. > > > > > > I have a server running postfix/courier-imap, and I'd like to > > > know how to make those working backups. I've asked a couple > > > places but haven't found anything useful. > > > > The two most common styles of mailboxes are mbox and maildir, and > > both of those can be backed up at the filesystem level using > > dump, tar, or anything else. > > I've got it set up using maildir. In the past to back up the mail > I just copied the files. At one point I had to restore from the > backup, so I just copied the files back into the original location. > Logging in via imap though, there were no emails to be found.=20 > I've gotten vague "I think you just copy the files" responses, but > that didn't work in my case, and I'm not sure what I need to do. > I don't know how it is with courier, but when you restore from a=20 backup using cyrus you have to run /usr/local/cyrus/bin/reconstruct=20 so the message index is rebuilt and the messages show up. I'd=20 imagine there is something similar for courier. =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart2216054.GIpzDxOAyB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEFZrtxqA5ziudZT0RAiYgAKCYRm9yLKbT8gXLaEtbNAH1fqWRnQCcDExg SJog+2yVxO2fL+jgoZX84GE= =JIJO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2216054.GIpzDxOAyB--