Re: [IMail Forum] Backing Up

[Jerry Murdock]

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As long as your full backup gets the registry you should be OK - you'll have all the parts to get back to a working server.    We do a full backup nightly as well (actually two - one to tape and another to a box that is used just for raw storage), but mail is a critical enough app that extra steps for a speedy recovery are warranted.  The regedit export makes getting the system back up easier if not doing a full system restore.   Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Ingram To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 10:01 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Backing Up Ok this maybe dumb question but here goes. I can�t see why I should do this kind of backup if I do a full system backup on the sever each night. 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?   ~Paul~   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jerry Murdock Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 9:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Backing Up   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 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Madscientist Sent: Thursday, 09 May, 2002 01:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Backing Up Sensitivity: Private 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. _M -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Shawn Holcombe Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 1:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] Backing Up Sensitivity: Private What are some of the things I should do to safeguard our Imail data?  We have daily backups running on it and saving the whole Imail directory, but is there a way to backup all of the user information such as passwords?  Any backup tips will be appreciated.  Better safe than sorry�   Shawn Holcombe Information Systems