Reply to: K.C. Condit
Re: [IMail Forum] nightly backups on Wednesday 11:08:12 AM
From: Roger Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
K> We use St. Bernard's Open File Manager which gets us around the problem of
K> open files during backups. It works well with NT 4.0 and BackupExec.
This is great, but no special software is necessary to do backups of
in use files. XCOPY.EXE supplied with Windows does this. You can see
the commands by going to dos prompt and typing xcopy /? to see the
available commands.
We use Unisyn's Automate program on all of our servers and in early
morning hours (when not many files are 'in use') it runs a simple
batch file backing up to other hard drives virtual mirrors of crucial
server and configuration files. XCOPY.EXE also has switches to backup
only new or changed files as well, making this extra efficient.
If you don't want to automate this, then just run a batch every so
often... I use the following batch file for IMail:
BACKUP.BAT
title Do Backup
echo off
rem backup main IMail server
c:
rem
cd\
rem
rem backup imail
xcopy c:\imail\*.* e:\imail\*.* /e /r /d
rem
exit
exit
If you use the Imail backup registry function then that file
will also be backed up along with any new or changed files in
all of Imail... Just add an extra line if you want to backup to
more than one hard drive on your subnet.
To restore would be a matter of copying the mirror back then
running the registry restore after reinstalling Imail. This
presumes you would restore IPs to your NIC in TCP/IP for multi-
hosting if you are doing that.
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