A Complete Backup Guide¶
This is really easy. First off you should have a backup of your
configuration.nix
file where you have the server config (but that is
already in a git repository right?)
Next you need to backup /var/vmail
or whatever you have specified
for the option mailDirectory
. This is where all the mails reside.
Good options are a cron job with rsync
or scp
. But really
anything works, as it is simply a folder with plenty of files in it. If
your backup solution does not preserve the owner of the files don’t
forget to chown
them to virtualMail:virtualMail
if you copy them
back (or whatever you specified as vmailUserName
, and
vmailGoupName
).
Finally you can (optionally) make a backup of /var/dkim
(or whatever
you specified as dkimKeyDirectory
). If you should lose those don’t
worry, new ones will be created on the fly. But you will need to repeat
step B)5
and correct all the dkim
keys.