Re: Backup instructions

[Brad Guzules <bradg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How much space do you have on your local machine?  Enough to 
temporarily store a copy of the entire mail system files and 
directories?  You can execute, after a clean shutdown of post.office:

tar cvzf mailsystems.tgz  /var/spool/post.office /var/spool/mailbox 
/etc/post.office.conf

This will create a gzipped archive of the listed directories where 
ever you execute the command.  It will also retain permissions and 
ownership. Depending on your file system size you may need to TCP 
mount a disk from another server.  BE CAREFUL, because you do not 
want to fill up the file system  that is spooling the mail or 
everything stops.  You can check the disk usage of each of these on 
the console with du -sk /var/spool/post.office, etc.

After you have this archive you can burn it to CD / DVD or ftp, scp, 
afp to another host.

The only drawback is that this can be slow depending on your mail 
volume, and if you have *LOTS* of mail you could exceed the max file 
size.  Breaking the tarball into each component will help this a 
little.

Hope that this helps a little,

Brad Guzules
Santa Clara, CA

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Rick Roberts wrote:

> To track down a problem on my server, the Tenon folks have advised 
> me not to run Retrospect on it. I still need to backup, so 
> naturally, I figure I'd login to Post.Office and visit the help 
> pages for guidance. This is what I found:
>
> Backup Instructions:
>
> These instructions assume that you have installed Post.Office in the 
> default locations which are /usr/local/post.office (program 
> executables), /var/spool/post.office (the spooling directories), and 
> /var/spool/mailbox (the pop/IMAP mailbox directory). If you selected 
> other locations you will need to adjust the instructions 
> accordingly. To determine the current locations of your Post.Office, 
> Program, and Mailbox directories list the contents of the 
> /etc/post.office.conf file.
>
>    1. Log on as root.
>    2. Shutdown Post.Office by typing:
>
> /usr/local/post.office/post.office  shutdown
>
>    3. Back up the following items making sure to maintain 
> permissions and links:
>           o /var/spool/post.office (the Post.Office account and 
> configuration information)
>           o /var/spool/mailbox (the mailbox information)
>     o /etc/post.office.conf (your configuration file)
>
> I'm a Mac guy. What does "Back up the following items making sure to 
> maintain permissions and links" mean exactly? What's wrong with 
> including the syntax?! Argh.
>
> Rick Roberts
> Atlanta, GA
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