[afnog] Self induced Mail Server (POP) crash and recovery.

[Kevin G. Chege]

Hi Ismail,

It may be too late for you but FreeBSD does store a backup of the group 
and the master passwd files in  /var/backups/ so you can recover 
usernames, passwords and corresponding UIDs and GIDs.  Check out rsync 
for remote backups as well: http://www.samba.org/rsync/

Ismail M. Settenda wrote:
> True thks,
>
> Thou the daily backup had only conf file from /etc and 
> /usr/local/etc/. Further more some how had not thot of backing up;
> /usr/local/mailman and /usr/local/www/webmail (I have added now)
>
> So with the conf files backed up the MTA came up fine but I still 
> needed to re-install the O.S all over.
>
> -- 
> Ismail
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com 
> <mailto:randy at psg.com>> wrote:
>
>     > The immediate strategy was to recover the files by;
>     >
>     >    1. Shutdown server and use the second raid disk as it was
>     running raid 1.
>     >    2. Use the installation CD to try copy the files or
>     re-install the broken
>     >    programs
>     >    3. Copy files from a similar mail server's /usr directory.
>
>     4. recover from the daily backup
>
>
>
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