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How to restore from full backup

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:25 pm
by ski98033
Hi,

I was told that you can create a snapshot of /var/opt/scalix, backup it up, and then restore it to another mailnode to recover a mailbox or two. When I read the documentation, it says 'call scalix'. Anyone have a process on how to do this?

cheers,

ski

Re: How to restore from full backup

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:37 am
by Valerion
1) Install a full server (VM perhaps) with the same version of the OS and Scalix components
2) Make a backup of the clean mailstore in /var/opt/scalix
3) Restore your /var/opt/scalix over this one
4) Restart Scalix and follow the wiki's IP and hostname change procedure
5) Use sxmboxexp to export the mailboxes and sxmboximp to restore them