Backup script for user mailboxes
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 4:25 pm
Since we first installed Scalix I've been looking for a simple solution for backing up our users mailbox without having to mirror file systems, bring down the mailserver, or any of that. I just wanted a simple script that would pull the messages and put them in one place for each user. From what I've seen so far there are a few different ways to accomplish that. I took bits and pieces from all of those and made my own backup script for my users. Since most of the information I used to accomplish this came from this forum I decided I would share. I am not taking any credit for any of the code. This is simply my own rendition of many different backup options.
I simply run this script in a cron job ever week and send the output to /var/log in a log file I check every week to ensure the backup was complete. I also backup the mail folder this script dumps the mailboxes to offsite for disaster recovery purposes. Questions / Suggestions are welcome and thanks to all the people who help out here. Without you guys I could not solve half of the problems that crop up.
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#! /bin/bash
echo "Mailbox Backup Starting [`date`]"
MBOXDIR="/backup/mailboxes"
if [ -d $MBOXDIR ]; then
echo "Found Backup Directory. Using It."
else
echo "Creating Backup Directory ${MBOXDIR} to backup mailboxes."
mkdir ${MBOXDIR}
fi
for i in $(omshowu -m all | cut -d "/" -f 1 | sed -e 's: $::g' -e 's/ /\//g'); do
user=`printf "$i" | sed -e 's:/: :g'`
#
# $user = Username With Space
# $i = Username With \ Before Space
# ex: $user="Firstname Lastname"
# ex: $i="Firstname\ Lastname"
#
echo ${user}
if [ -a $MBOXDIR/$i.mbox ]; then
echo "Existing backup found. Removing before creating new backup."
rm ${MBOXDIR}/${user}.mbox
fi
echo "Backing up user ${user}"
sxmboxexp -u "${user}" -a ${MBOXDIR}/"${user}".mbox --listlevel folder -F
doneI simply run this script in a cron job ever week and send the output to /var/log in a log file I check every week to ensure the backup was complete. I also backup the mail folder this script dumps the mailboxes to offsite for disaster recovery purposes. Questions / Suggestions are welcome and thanks to all the people who help out here. Without you guys I could not solve half of the problems that crop up.
