Backup Require for Qmail-Toaster

mail4vijay · 11-20-2009, 01:00 PM

Hi,

How to take backup of qmail-toaster ....like mail / virtual-domains /virtual-users etc etc...

Should we need to take backup of /var/qmail , mysql databasees , /home/ dirs... if in case of crash how to recover and make them live qmail-toaster again....

Any thoughts / suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

rweaver · 11-20-2009, 03:42 PM

My suggestion would be to dump the mysql database nightly and keep a weeks worth and rsync backup the entire system unless you are familiar enough with the customizations on your qmail to know exactly what needs backed up. To often when working on qmail I've seen partial backups that resulted in missing files needed to get the machine back online quickly.

Regards,

Ralph

mail4vijay · 12-15-2009, 06:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rweaver

My suggestion would be to dump the mysql database nightly and keep a weeks worth and rsync backup the entire system unless you are familiar enough with the customizations on your qmail to know exactly what needs backed up. To often when working on qmail I've seen partial backups that resulted in missing files needed to get the machine back online quickly.

Regards,

Ralph

Thanks for the suggestion, if you have used qmail-toaster before do you have any backup script for this to take the complete backup without bother.

Thanks again for your reply.!

rweaver · 12-15-2009, 01:17 PM

I have worked on qmailtoaster, qmailrocks, and a few other versions of modified qmail. It tends to be somewhat inconsistent based on the initial installer. For any qmail installation I recommend full backups or at a minimum try to restore your qmail to a functioning state on another system based on your backups before you mark it as 'complete'.