Backup/Restore only acount and emails

[nizarb]

Hello,
I have an existant OpenXchange Express installation with 40 acounts, and i set up another server using OpenXchange Community Installer, now, I want just to backup Acount and Emails from the EE server and restore them to my new server. It is possible to do it?
I tryied the backup/restore mecanism, but it's overwrite all configuration etc...

[nizarb]

Hello again

i just backup/restore my acounts and emails just with executing 4 commands on each server (restore on the first one and backup on the second)
1) backup the database
2) copying /var/spool
3) copying /home
4) copying /var/lib/cyrus

It's works fine (at the time i wrote this post), hope it will keep working
if someone find that i made some error or i forget to do something else please let me know.

Thank you

[Martin Heiland]

Hi,
you may also want to backup the groupware configuration at /opt/open-xchange/etc/ and the OX filestorage at /var/opt/filespool

Greetings

[nizarb]

Thank you,
but i have one big problem now, when i send message using outlook or ox webmail it's seems to be sent, but nothing new in the Inbox!! i have only the old emails backed up from the old server
PS: the old server was based on the EE/Community ISO installer, and the new one installed using the community installer (ubuntu 8.04)
Any idea why?

[Martin Heiland]

Strange, did you change the hostname of the server? Maybe there is some conflicting configuration - please have a look at /var/log/mail.*

Greetings

[nizarb]

Hi,

Nothing strange on the mail log. The only difference between the 2 server was the IP address and the Hostname, and i made the changes on the /etc/hosts file to suit the new configuration of IP.
And as i said before, the first server (frem where i took the backup) is installed with EE/Community ISO installer and the new one is installed on a clean ubuntu 8.04 installation using Community Installer.
PS: I dont have spamassassin and clamav in the new server. (not the case of the old one)

Thanks.

[Martin Heiland]

Hi,

are you able to provide logfiles of a mail traveling from one user to another? Normally problems or stuck mails can be found out by analyzing the logs or running the "postqueue" command.