1 Topic by Stubby066

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Topic: Recovering and merging emails after server crash and recovery

==== REQUIRED BASIC INFO OF YOUR IREDMAIL SERVER ====
- iRedMail version (check /etc/iredmail-release): 1.7.4 MARIADB edition.
- Deployed with iRedMail Easy or the downloadable installer? Downloadable
- Linux/BSD distribution name and version: Ubuntu 24.04
- Store mail accounts in which backend (LDAP/MySQL/PGSQL):  MySQL/mariadb
- Web server (Apache or Nginx): NGINX
- Manage mail accounts with iRedAdmin-Pro? No
- [IMPORTANT] Related original log or error message is required if you're experiencing an issue.
====

On 31 Dec my server had a non-email related failure. I was able to recover the server from a backup, however that rolled me back to 19 December in terms of server state and emails.

I have since been able to recover the vmail directory from the pre-crash server drives. What/how is the best way to bring in the missing 11 days of email from 19 Dec to 31 Dec to the restored configuration?

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2 Reply by Cthulhu

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Re: Recovering and merging emails after server crash and recovery

Emails are stored as textfiles, if you don't have a backup of those, there is 0 chance to recover them