Re: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key

2005-12-15 Thread Jim Sullivan
Just a follow up for anyone in the future with the same problem we had who searches this list for a solution:Obviously we were foolish not to be backing up the registry. Anyone using imail should be backing up the registry every night because it's crazy important.That being said, we got

Re: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key

2005-12-15 Thread Darin Cox
it? Darin. - Original Message - From: Jim Sullivan To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:27 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key Just a follow up for anyone in the future with the same problem we had who

RE: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key

2005-12-15 Thread Christopher Checca
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darin Cox Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 4:12 PM To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key Hmmm? We have our own backups in place, but I was curious about this. I

Re: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key

2005-12-15 Thread Darin Cox
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Re: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key

2005-12-14 Thread Martin Schaible
Hi Jim, I think your are sitting now in deep s The data stored in the registry is the heart of IMail. Everything, really everything is stored there: Data about Domains, Users and the general Setup. I think, without a backup of the registry, you're complete lost. There is no way to

RE: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key

2005-12-14 Thread Daniel Donnelly
Well, I've never actually done this for a full domain of users, but if you do restore the data, IMail has a button "Find Orphans" that can see the folders for each user and create the original user accounts (that part I've done for a small number of orphans, so I know it works). However,

Re: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key

2005-12-14 Thread Doug Traylor
On 12/14/05, Jim Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our mail server went down yesterday and there is a good chance we will need to re-install the operating system. Is the drive/drives that the system OS was installed on toast? If the system is not bootable but the drives are functioning, you might

Re: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key

2005-12-14 Thread Darin Cox
:28 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key Hi Jim, I think your are sitting now in deep s The data stored in the registry is the heart of IMail. Everything, really everything is stored there: Data about Domains, Users and the general Setup. I

RE: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key

2005-12-14 Thread Chris Moody
SchaibleSent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 11:29 AMTo: Jim SullivanSubject: Re: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key Hi Jim, I think your are sitting now in deep s The data stored in the registry is the heart of IMail. Everything, really everything

RE: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key

2005-12-14 Thread Travis Rabe
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Schaible Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 8:29 AM To: Jim Sullivan Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key Hi Jim, I think your are sitting now in deep s The data stored in the registry

RE: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key

2005-12-14 Thread Jim Sullivan
Daniel Donnelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried to get the registry from the downed machine? Is there some way to restart the computer (or at least the HD) from a repair disk and then export at least the IMail portion of the registry? That would be most helpful! Registry files are

Re: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key

2005-12-14 Thread Sanford Whiteman
Our mail server went down yesterday and there is a good chance we will need to re-install the operating system. BEFORE you overwrite the OS, do a parallel install of the OS into another directory such as \WINCLEAN. Run RegEdit from that install, choose load hive, and load the

Re: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key

2005-12-14 Thread Martin Schaible
Hi, This is a very good idea indeed. Am Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2005 um 18:26 schrieben Sie: Our mail server went down yesterday and there is a good chance we will need to re-install the operating system. BEFORE you overwrite the OS, do a

RE: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key

2005-12-14 Thread Grant Bainbridge
Of Martin Schaible Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 11:56 AM To: Sanford Whiteman Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Restoring imail without a backup of the registry key Hi, This is a very good idea indeed. Am Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2005 um 18:26 schrieben Sie