Good day, Are emails backup up in the users profile job on ISPConfig? I see it backs up Web and DB in 2 separate jobs. I want to be sure emails are backed up also. I have a customer that only wants a few email accounts. There is only web in /var/www/clients/ (no clients/Maildir). I've seen from a previous post : /var/vmail. I guess I can tar.gz that whole folder. Or do it manually for /var/vmail/site.com or even /var/vmail/site.com/user/Maildir ref : https://www.howtoforge.com/community/threads/ispconfig3-what-to-backup.32789/ If emails are not backed up automatically with the backup job, what do you recommend? Setting up a cronjob manually? I guess I somehow answered my own question! Still interested on your view and opinion. Thank you, JP Cyrenne
A backup function for email ahs been developed for ISPConfig 3.2, so in the current version, emails are not part of the backup. Normally you should have a full system backup already, e.g. with duplicity, so you can restore emails from that backup. If you want to have an additional email backup, then create a cronjon that backs up /var/vmail, this flder contains all mailboxes.
Sorry to bump an old thread by I noticed that email backups are already listed in version 3.1.11 - is it stable or more like a "beta" ?
I noticed that the filename of the backup is not quite clear as well as the folder - it just says mail7 for folder and mail2_date_of_creation.tar.gz for the filename if I ever need to restore the backup manually what is the best way to identify which mailbox is which?
you have mailX/mailY_date... where X is the domain_id from mail_domain and Y the mailuser_id from mail_user
