I am posting again I never saw this make on the list. Is the list acting up again it seems I see a responses sometimes before the question.
Ok this maybe dumb question but here goes. I can't see why I should do this kind of backup. > We export the registry data for IMail every day and store it in the same IMail directories that get backed up every night. That way we have the entire structure at any point in time. If I do a full system backup on the server each night. I am not sayint I should not do it just wondering why or if What I am doing is enough. I have a Ecrix 60gb tape drive and I can put 7 days worth of full backups on one tape then I rotate every 7th days with 4 weeks worth of tapes and week 4 I have two tapes to alternate each month and take one off site. This server is Imail only with 300 users most of which POP there mail so I have really little MBX storage. So I have always figured if it came down to it I would take the tape to our web server (the same setup just no Imail) and run the tape. Am I crazy should I do something different or does this sound ok? I like regedit, and use it nightly to backup the imail branch of the registry nightly. The main benefit over the other utilities for imail is that you end up with a text file that can easily be modified to change things like IP addresses and drive letters. It is also ALWAYS on the target machine. You can grab any NT/2000/XP machine available with enough disk space and have imail up and running again in under 10 minutes(not an exageration - may take all of 15 minutes if you haven't tried it at least once on the test bench).. If the drive letter assignments or other settings need tweaking, it's a simple search/replace process using your tool of choice(perl,sed, notepad, etc). Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: Forum To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 2:17 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Backing Up Is there a way to automate the process of eporting the Imail registry data? _D --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus/McAfee] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
