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Hmmm? We have our own backups in place, but I
was curious about this. I checked and there are no current backup files
under localhost in the IMail Administrator. I also tried to use it to run
a backup and it did not generate a backup file.
How is this supposed to work, and why wouldn't
it?
Darin. ----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Sullivan
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the
registry key Just a follow up for anyone in the future with the same
problem we had who searches this list for a solution:
Obviously we were foolish not to be backing up the registry. Anyone
using imail should be backing up the registry every night because it's crazy
important.
That being said, we got very lucky yesterday. The automatic registry
backups performed by imail saved us from disaster. If anyone ever has the
same situation we had (your registry is corrupted or destroyed in some way, you
have a backup or unharmed copy of the imail directory, you don't have
a backup of the registry) try this:
1. Do a fresh install of imail (make sure this install does not over-write
your backed up copy of the imail directory).
2. Shut down all imail services.
3. take out the newly-installed imail directory and replace it
with your backed-up copy of the imail directory
5. Open the imail administrator. Click "localhost". Click
"Backup".
6. Hopefully you will see some imail backup
files. Select the most recent one and click "restore".
7. This should restore your registry to the state it was in when that
backup file was created. Re-start all your imail services and everything
should be working again.
8. Now that everything is (hopefully) fixed, go set up a scheduled task to
back up the imail registry using either regback.exe or regedit every
night.
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