how to export shared contact folder for backup purpose?

[fraserchen]

All of our clients maintain a contact folder, Contact1, under Public folders, read and write.

How can I export the shared contact folder to a file? so that I can backup it to tape periodically. Then what's the command to import it backup to scalix in case somebody made mistake.


thanks,
fraser

[gren]

See the man page for sxmboxexp.

This command will list your public folders with their IDs

sxmboxlist -p

Say the output contains :
F-0000001281 Contact1

then to produce an archive, you can use :

sxmboxexp --public --archive contacts.mboxexp --folder F-0000001281

You can use sxmboximp to restore from the archive file "contacts.mboxexp" at a later date.

Regards,
Gren.

[William]

you can use the rest API to export the data:

e.g. wget -q http://mail.domain.com/api/sxadmin@doma ... tput=vcard --http-user=sxadmin --http-password=password -O - > /path/domain_contacts_vcard.txt

there is more information in the manual: Scalix API Guide
found here: http://www.scalix.com/community/downloa ... tation.php

There are several good threads about backing up Scalix data - these may provide more scope.

[fraserchen]

thanks, it works beautiful.