On Monday 13 March 2006 09:24, Pat Maddox wrote: > On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pat Maddox wrote: > > > On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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