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List:       kolab-users
Subject:    Re: Repair without loosing info
From:       Bo Thorsen <bo () thorsen-consulting ! dk>
Date:       2004-10-28 14:26:32
Message-ID: 200410281626.32203.bo () thorsen-consulting ! dk
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On Thursday 28 October 2004 16:18, Bo Thorsen wrote:
> On Thursday 28 October 2004 15:29, Stephan Buys wrote:
> > Hi Jeffrey,
> >
> > On Thursday 28 October 2004 15:20, Jeffrey Walls wrote:
> > > Since noone can tell me why I can't get past pth not compiling when
> > > I try to update to the latest Kolab, I guess I need to go another
> > > direction.
> > >
> > > Can you point me to the docs that help me to backup my ldap data
> > > (slapcat?) and restore it, and what happens to my cyrus mailboxes
> > > and mailbox structures (additional mail storage folders created by
> > > users)?
> >
> > Use /kolab/sbin/slapcat to get a copy of the ldap database.  You can
> > use slapadd to reload the database.
> >
> > If you are running zfos kolab or kolab2 you can just use
> > $ctl_mboxlist -d > myfile.dump to backup the cyrus mailbox list and
> > use the same utility to recreate the mailboxes.db file...
> >
> > Of course backing up everything in /kolab/var/imapd/spool/ as well...
>
> I would like to see stuff like this on kolab.org. There have been so
> many backup/restore questions that it deserves a page on its own.

Oh, and backup/restoure being is as easy as is, it's very much an argument 
for deploying Kolab. So we should want to brag about it :-)

Bo.

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