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

[Ismail M. Settenda]

Yeah its late. But this is a really interesting bit of info thks.

I believe the backup mechanism was essentially o.k and already uses rysnc.
Its just had not included necessary files to better facilitate recovery.

--
Ismail

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Kevin G. Chege <kchege at kenet.or.ke> wrote:

> 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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