Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 2:58 PM
Subject: RE: off topic: backup
OK,
I dont know if this is the best way to do the backup but it works for
me.....
1.-
Do tar -cvf domains.tar /home/vpopmail/domains (if home directory of vpopmail
is that one)
2.- If you
change machine or reinstall qmail and components youll need to copy the
control files that allow users to sign up
so...
2.1 tar -cvf control.tar
/var/qmail/control
2.2 tar -cvf users.tar
/var/qmail/users
If
you reinstall qmail in a fresh machine untar the files and copy them into the
right location... The results are this..
All
mail tared in domains.tar will be restored and the users
too.
The
"control" directory will restore all your virtual domains, rcpthosts and your
local information so every thing will work as before
The
"users" directory will restore the "assign" file wich is the one that controls
the virtual domains and the users who can access them
For
last but not less if the machine is a fresh instalation you must be sure of
doing these
The
assign file contains the user id and group id of the vpopmail user so if you
do a cat /var/qmail/users/assign youll see something like
this
+domain.com-:domain.com:508:503:/home/vpopmail/domains/domain.com:-::
Where 508 is the user id and 503 is the group id of
vpopmail user
Then
do id vpopmail in the command line and you should see something like this
uid=508(vpopmail) gid=503(vchkpw)
groups=503(vchkpw)
If
the user id and group id of vpopmail user is not the same in the assign file
then the users WONT BE ABLE TO LOGIN
If
this situation applies to you then just edit the assign file and correct
it..
Ready your done....
Bye
-----Original Message-----
From:
Wagner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May
10, 2001 1:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: off topic: backup
Good Afternoon:
I've got
qmail+vpopmail+qmailadmin+sqwebmail+vqadmin running on my linux, and i want
to start to make backups of my vpopmail directory (where the users account
are).
I'd like to know how to do it and if my machine
goes down, can i use this backup to put in another machine to restore the
users's messages?
I don't want to lose the users messages
!
Thank you very much:
Wagner Garcia
Campagner
