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Topic: Need Sanity Check on Backup

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I'm running .0.9.7.

I tarr'd /var/vmail/vmail1/* into a large file and copied that file to a second system.
If my original system dies today, does that tar file contain ALL my emails from 1 first to the most current at the time the system did it's daily dump?

I understand that no settings were copied, but all emails, attachments, etc.  So that if I have to import it into 'something' it's all there?

Thanks for a pre-holiday sanity/safety check <g>.

Andrew

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Re: Need Sanity Check on Backup

AndyInNYC wrote:

I tarr'd /var/vmail/vmail1/* into a large file and copied that file to a second system.
If my original system dies today, does that tar file contain ALL my emails from 1 first to the most current at the time the system did it's daily dump?

Yes. /var/vmail/vmail1/ (this is default mailbox storage path) contains all mail messages, including mail attachments ('maildir' mailbox format).