mail backup solution?

[Anish Mistry]

On Monday 13 March 2006 09:24, Pat Maddox wrote:
> On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
> > Pat Maddox wrote:
> > > On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> 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. 
> 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 
backup using cyrus you have to run /usr/local/cyrus/bin/reconstruct 
so the message index is rebuilt and the messages show up.  I'd 
imagine there is something similar for courier.

-- 
Anish Mistry
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