I have questions about backup and restore emails

[Brandon]

I would like to ask how I can do backup and restore mails a user? Or where they are stored in the backup's emails? In what folder?

I'm doing in this tutorial: http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Open-Xchange_backup

And I do the following:

mysqldump --all-databases --single-transaction > database_dumpfile.mysql

then I delete messages and to restore them doing

mysql -uroot -p < database_dumpfile.mysql

and

mysql -uroot -p -e "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"

and nothing happens. My emails have not been restored. Why?


I would like to ask how I can do backup and restore mails a user? Or where they are stored in the backup's emails? In what folder?
I'm doing in this tutorial: http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?ti...Xchange_backup
And I do the following:
then I delete messages and to restore them doing
and nothing happens. My emails have not been restored. Why?

[Martin Heiland]

Hi,

E-Mails are stored within IMAP mailboxes, not within the SQL Database. You can either backup the mailbox directory (/var/spool/cyrus for OXASE if i remember correctly) or use more advanced backup tools. Also note that OXASE contains a lot of components (LDAP, Samba...) so perhaps using a more advanced backup tool for the entire system might be a very good idea.

Greetings