On Monday 18 August 2003 00:26, Marc Chan wrote: > Can anybody recommend the fastest and safest way > to backup my E-mail users? > > I'm thinking of copying all the users in my /home directory > (/home/user/Mailbox) > to my new Email server but how about their password? How can i backup > their password? i'm using /etc/passwd auth only.
this might depend on your distribution (i only use mandrake, i've used redhat and slackware in the past, but this was *long* ago, i've also used freebsd [many versions], but that would be offtopic). on most linuxes (i'm guessing, anyway, on mine), you need to save /etc/shadow*. the passwords are there. for simplicity, i'd save all of /etc. you will need to save where all the unread email is stored. that depends on your distribution. what SMTP server does your server use? on my box, i need to save /var/spool/mail and /var/spool/postfix and maybe a bunch of other directories [depends on your setup]. if you want to, you could save /home i guess. depends on whether you give people shell access. or if you're the only one with shell access, if you want to save your downloads and other stuff in your home directory :). if you tell the list what distribution you use, maybe someone using the same distribution and SMTP/POP2-3/IMAP server will be able to help you. good luck. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo gquimpo*hotmail.com tiger*sni*ph http://bopolissimus.sni.ph Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods. Bernard Levin. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
