Dave Kettmann wrote:
Hello,
I want to backup my vpopmail users, but I dont want to backup 3+GB of email with it :). I can backup the database no problem, but I fear that it is not enough in a recovery situation. I was thinking of dumping the output of vpopbull -n -V to a file then make script to run vuserinfo on each line and extract the info I need to recreate the directory structure and/or rebuild the database using vadduser and vadddomain.
I guess my main question is: Is backing up the database going to be enough?
I would think so. I do not believe there is any information provided from vuserinfo that is not taken from the vpopmail DB. I can think of a few things to watch out for.
- .qmail-<user>
Seems there is always a user who has something "special" going on with their account. I would use a script to write the .qmail<user> file to a dir named for the <user>-<domain> so you do not have files overwriting each other ([EMAIL PROTECTED] vs [EMAIL PROTECTED], both would be .qmail-bob). Should be pretty easy to query the DB during a restore, grab the users path, and drop the .qmail-<user> file back into his domain dir.
- IMAP dirs
Do any of your users have IMAP info stored in their Maildir. Seems I remember hearing of a add-on that stored some user pref info in the Maildir.
- ezmlm Lists would be something to keep in mind.
- .spamassassin
If you don't use MySQL for SA, you want to keep your user prefs, whitelists, etc.
All in all it might be easier to write a simple back up that excludes mail messages.
DAve
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