Re: [webmin-l] Backups for Transferring

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 7/Dec/2006 13:01 John Hinton wrote ..
> Jamie,
> 
> So far I've been really successful with doing backups using the backup
> function built into Virtualmin. I use this for moving accounts from one
> server to another, for instance at the point where an old box is being
> retired or whatever.
> 
> For me, on CentOS, this leaves a couple of items which need to be done
> by hand... outside of Virtualmin control. One, is our default 
> installation of SquirrelMail. Address books and other user customized 
> functions get left behind. Also, the same for Usermin. Some things like
> for instance scheduled emails are left on the old server.
> 
> It would be nice to be able to catch these couple of items in the backup
> and perhaps something else depending on what other folks might be using.
> 
> Do you have any ideas about how these types of things might be included
> into that backup system? What you have already created is SO wonderful
> for this type of maintenance... getting the offbeat items like mysql DBs
> as well as the all the email settings... it really is sweet and such a
> huge timesaver.

I think the proper solution would be to update Virtualmin to include
all that missing data. For scheduled emails, I need to include mailbox users'
cron jobs, which isn't too hard. For squirrelmail I'm not sure ... do you
know where on the filesystem they get saved?

 - Jamie