RE: [vchkpw] VPOPMAIL Backup
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 18:40 +0100, Michele Virgilio wrote: > Thanks for our replies, so can anyone give me a script to automate this > process? Here's a script to look at your current vpopmail area and write the commands needed to recreate that area. Just redirect the output from the script to a file and that file now contains the commands needed to recreate your environment. #!/bin/bash cd /home/vpopmail/domains find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d | sed 's#\./##'|while read x; do password="$(grep postmaster $x/vpasswd | sed 's/^.*://')" echo '/home/vpopmail/bin/vadddomain ' \'$x\' \'$password\' sed "s/:.*:/:/;s#^#/home/vpopmail/bin/vadduser #;s/:/@$x '/;s/$/'/" $x/vpasswd|grep -v postmaster done Grabbing the users .qmail files, and any existing mail can be done as follows: #!/bin/bash cd /home/vpopmail/domains find . -name .qmail* | tar -c -T - >/root/q.tar find . -type d -name 'Maildir'|sed 's#$#/new#'|tar -c -T - >/root/M.tar If you want to grab the /var/qmail/control area, just tar it as in : tar -c /var/qmail/control >/root/c.tar I find that taking real backups of things via tape backup, rsync, etc although useful at times, isn't exactly that useful when I want to create a new server. When I want a new box, its got a newer O/S, newer versions of vpopmail, newer qmail (patches), newer clamav, etc, and trying to tar dump an old environment into a new one isn't trivial. Therefore, I prefer to create the commands needed to recreate the environment from scratch which assumes I've had a catastrophic failure, and was forced to create a new box up to the point where I want to add domains and users. Then the info from the scripts above comes into play. We rsync the entire box to a spare drive in a different box every night. >From that spare drive, we can extract whatever info we want even after the real box has died, got stolen (it happened), whatever. This isn't everything you need to do, but its a start to get you thinking. -- Bill Gradwohl
RE: [vchkpw] VPOPMAIL Backup
Thanks, very nice! :) > -Original Message- > From: Charles J. Boening [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: mercoledì 4 gennaio 2006 19.13 > To: vchkpw@inter7.com > Subject: RE: [vchkpw] VPOPMAIL Backup > > How about putting this in as a cron job: > > tar jcf /home/email.backup.tar.bz2 /home/vpopmail /var/qmail/control > /var/qmail/users > > > > You could also make an offsite backup > > > ERR=/var/log/backup/backup-err.log > BACKUP="/home/vpopmail /var/qmail/assign /var/qmail/users" > FTP_SERVER="some.server.com" > FTP_USER="ftp" > FTP_PASS="passwd" > > /bin/tar -jclpf - $BACKUP 2>$ERR | ncftpput -c -u $FTP_USER -p $FTP_PASS > $FTP_SERVER backup.tar.gz > > > Or something like that. > > But like the other guy said, Google is your friend. > > > Charlie > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Michele Virgilio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 9:40 AM > > To: vchkpw@inter7.com > > Subject: RE: [vchkpw] VPOPMAIL Backup > > > > > > > > > > > For qmail > > > > > > /var/qmail/control/* > > > /var/qmail/users/* > > > > > > Your tcp.smtp file, where ever that may be stored (usually > > in /etc or > > > ~vpopmail/etc) > > > > > > > > > For vpopmail > > > > > > All the .qmail* files in each domain, plus all the .qmail > > files in the > > > users directory if wanted. > > > > > > > > > We personally do an rsync backup of /var/qmail and > > /home/vpopmail for > > > most of our clients servers, either to a separate machine or drive. > > > > > > > Thanks for our replies, so can anyone give me a script to > > automate this process? > > > > Thanks, > > Mik > > > > > >
RE: [vchkpw] VPOPMAIL Backup
How about putting this in as a cron job: tar jcf /home/email.backup.tar.bz2 /home/vpopmail /var/qmail/control /var/qmail/users You could also make an offsite backup ERR=/var/log/backup/backup-err.log BACKUP="/home/vpopmail /var/qmail/assign /var/qmail/users" FTP_SERVER="some.server.com" FTP_USER="ftp" FTP_PASS="passwd" /bin/tar -jclpf - $BACKUP 2>$ERR | ncftpput -c -u $FTP_USER -p $FTP_PASS $FTP_SERVER backup.tar.gz Or something like that. But like the other guy said, Google is your friend. Charlie > -Original Message- > From: Michele Virgilio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 9:40 AM > To: vchkpw@inter7.com > Subject: RE: [vchkpw] VPOPMAIL Backup > > > > > > > For qmail > > > > /var/qmail/control/* > > /var/qmail/users/* > > > > Your tcp.smtp file, where ever that may be stored (usually > in /etc or > > ~vpopmail/etc) > > > > > > For vpopmail > > > > All the .qmail* files in each domain, plus all the .qmail > files in the > > users directory if wanted. > > > > > > We personally do an rsync backup of /var/qmail and > /home/vpopmail for > > most of our clients servers, either to a separate machine or drive. > > > > Thanks for our replies, so can anyone give me a script to > automate this process? > > Thanks, > Mik > > >
Re: [vchkpw] VPOPMAIL Backup
>Thanks for our replies, so can anyone give me a script to automate this >process? > > You want fries with that? Go google for some or even read the folowing: man rsync man cron Go to www.tldp.org and search for the BASH How-To which is a great newbie tutorial for those new to unix or sh like shells. >Thanks, >Mik > > >
Re: [vchkpw] Re: Is chkuser 2.0 suitable for my system?
On Wednesday 04 Jan 2006 15:29, ro0ot wrote: > All my virtual domain in my system is with catchall account set to > [EMAIL PROTECTED], hence this will not work because chkuser will > accept all emails even it is invalide, am I right? yes, think so. > > How can I create a specific bounce-no-mailbox account to have chkuser > refuse invalid emails? cd /home/vpopmail/domains/domain.dom echo "| /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox" > .qmail-default chown vpopmail.vchkpw .qmail-default chmod 600 .qmail-default for each domain HTH -- - Bob Hutchinson Midwales dot com -
RE: [vchkpw] VPOPMAIL Backup
> > > For qmail > > /var/qmail/control/* > /var/qmail/users/* > > Your tcp.smtp file, where ever that may be stored (usually in /etc or > ~vpopmail/etc) > > > For vpopmail > > All the .qmail* files in each domain, plus all the .qmail files in the > users directory if wanted. > > > We personally do an rsync backup of /var/qmail and /home/vpopmail for > most of our clients servers, either to a separate machine or drive. > Thanks for our replies, so can anyone give me a script to automate this process? Thanks, Mik
Re: [vchkpw] VPOPMAIL Backup
Michl wrote: Hi all, i need to setup a configuration backup for all my vpopmail domains, vpopmail settings, and qmail settings. What are the files I need to store in my backup to get a quickly disaster recovery? Hi, For qmail /var/qmail/control/* /var/qmail/users/* Your tcp.smtp file, where ever that may be stored (usually in /etc or ~vpopmail/etc) For vpopmail All the .qmail* files in each domain, plus all the .qmail files in the users directory if wanted. We personally do an rsync backup of /var/qmail and /home/vpopmail for most of our clients servers, either to a separate machine or drive. HTH, Rick
Re: [vchkpw] VPOPMAIL Backup
Michl wrote: >Hi all, >i need to setup a configuration backup for all my vpopmail domains, vpopmail >settings, and qmail settings. >What are the files I need to store in my backup to get a quickly disaster >recovery? >Thanks, >Mik > > > > Qmail's config root: /var/qmail (in my box) /etc/tcp.smtp Vpopmail virtual domains root /home/vpopmail (in my box) There... thats what you need. In my experiencie, just tarring that will do the trick. The only problem will be what happens with new email well, put an smtp box that queues before your box just so you dont loose anything and THEN tar, then let the in-the-middle box forward to you and youre home free.
[vchkpw] VPOPMAIL Backup
Hi all, i need to setup a configuration backup for all my vpopmail domains, vpopmail settings, and qmail settings. What are the files I need to store in my backup to get a quickly disaster recovery? Thanks, Mik
Re: [vchkpw] Re: Is chkuser 2.0 suitable for my system?
All my virtual domain in my system is with catchall account set to [EMAIL PROTECTED], hence this will not work because chkuser will accept all emails even it is invalide, am I right? How can I create a specific bounce-no-mailbox account to have chkuser refuse invalid emails? Stephane Bouvard [ML] wrote: Hi, ,- - [ Le dimanche 25 décembre 2005 vers 22:48 ro0ot écrivait: ] - - | I have vpopmail using catchall account for all the virtual domain. Can chkuser 2.0 works with catchall account? Is chkuser 2.0 suitable for my system? chkuser work with catchall, but if you only have domains with catchall, chkuser will become useless : if you have a catchall, any email address should be valid and thus accepted by chkuser... thus chkuser will refuse no mail, except if you create specific bounce-no-mailbox accounts. | `- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Best regards... _ (_' ,_)téphane Bouvard [antarex AT freenet DOT be] http://www.antarex.be
