POP3 Foolishness: Backing It Up, Nuking It And Starting Over
May 12, 2007
So, I have my own dedicated server and have been rather neglectfull.
I currently have about 24 thousand email messages from the last few years. Like a tard, I always clicked "leave a copy of messages on server" on my mail clients.
So, I've been doing some reading and have decided to start over usin IMAP instead of POP3. Since I have all the messages in Outloop (go go 700 Meg .PST!) I',m looking for the best way to:
1. Back up my mail on the server
2. Nuke it all
3. Convert to IMAP
I then plan on installing something like http://www.roundcube.net/
After I create a backup of a VPS using Virtuozzo (I'm using the 1and1 VPS), where is the image stored? Is it necessary to manually save this image to a different server, or do 1and1 take of that automatically?
I understand that servers can do automatic backups of information, yet I also see forum modifications that enable simple ways of doing a backup. Are there different types of backups? Why is it necessary to manually backup a forum database when its done automatically by the server? In terms of assuring the data, what is required and whats a typical procedure, what does it entail, is it manual and if so usually how often, or is it usually automatic?
I currently have 2 VPS accounts. The first one runs cPanel and hosts my website's files.
The second VPS hosts the mysql databases which the website uses. There are about 70 databases, each averaging about 120MB in size.
At current, i use sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/ to backup each database over two days. (This crashes the server briefly for about 10 minutes per day ). I then use rsync on both servers to backup everything to off-site location.
Obviously, I need to find a better solution. I was thinking about backing up the databases weekly instead. However, the 10 minute downtime period from the script will still happen.
We have a dedicated server with CPanel/WHM. It appears that the CPanel/WHM backup portion of the control panel is not functioning properly, as we just had an incident where all mySQL databases were deleted from the system and the last backup we had was from 03/31/08. This is not acceptable, as we need to have atleast at the min. weekly backups done of our system.
We are in need of a FREE 3rd Party (preferrably open source) solution where we can install on our Linux CentOS system to be able to have backups, and would like to have this software preferrably be able to backup to a remote location, but this is not required.
I am basically a Mac user and my windows desktop just went kaput. I am looking for a cheap and dirty way to make back-ups of my MS SQL 2000 DB.
Is it possible to run a script that creates a copy of it in MS Access which can later be convereted back into MS SQL?
Is it possible to go from MS SQL to MySQL?
The MS SQL 2000 server is hosted on a shared server and I cannot leave DTS packages on it. I prefer not to go the DTS route as it goes way over my head anyway. I do, by the way, have a dedicated Win 2003 server.
Just had a quick question about backing up a large MySQL DB. I have a database that is 50gb with about half a billion entries in it. One table itself is about 40gb, the other 10gb consists of smaller tables.
The problem is, I want to back the database up and be able to keep it LIVE at the same time (as it will fall behind quickly if it's pulled for more than a few hours, as there are somewhere in the area of a million entries an hour, plus other deletions and queries).
I need to have a windows PC on my internal network connect via sftp and download the generated backups on my webserver.
What files do I need?
I'd like to do it on a daily basis as I run local tape backups every night.
My backups are being put into /backup/cpbackup/daily/ but there is a tarball, dirs/, and files/.
Do I just need to download the tarball? I was hoping to do this with psftp and the windows task manager so that I wouldn't have to do it manually every day.
I want to back up my entire server, probably 50gb of data.
i have a 20mbit connection at home, and get 1.5+mbytes/second when pushing a file onto my home pc from the server via ftp, so i know the pipe between the two can handle the bandwidth.
i've set up rsync at home but for some reason the transfer rate does not go over 50-60kbytes/sec, i'm guessing cause the files are too small.
is this a problem with my rsync configuration? i havne't set any speed limits...
finally, is there some better solution than rsync to backup my server?
command i'm using for rsync: rsync --links --backup --recursive /mydirectory myserver::backuplocation.
I have a dedicated server with a hdd capacity of 750Gb.. currently, only about 100GB is being used.. what kind of backup would you recommend?
- Rsync to another server (like BQBackup.com) - Rsync to another harddrive within the same server - Cpanel archived backups onto another server/hdd - Something else?
we dont host our own website, but recenty our server crashed, and our hosting provider was supposed to be backing things up. They told us that the entire server crashed and the backups were on the same server so we lost everthing. we actually did end up getting evertying back but it took nearly a week to get back online. they said they are now backing up everthing in a remote location so this wont happen again, but we dont want to put this in their hands anymore, we didnt even get everything back .htaccess, hidden files, subdomains were not backup up and lost. So we want to do our own backing up.
Is there some thing I can set up as a cron task to weekly automatically backup every single file on the server, and the database?
We think this would be very beinificial to us as we lost alot of money from this ordeal and we do not want it to happen again.
I am in the process of upgrading PHP. I have successfully compiled with with no errors. However, before I run the make install command, I would like to backup all the files associated with my current version of PHP. I am going from 4.3.11 to 4.4.6. I was wondering if anyone knew what the directories and files to back up? I am using Fedora Core.
I've been having a problem with server the last two days. Yesterday, my server went offline from 2pm and I caught it at about 9pm and the hosting company fixed it within an hour or so. The named service configuration was messed up some how.
Today, my server has been working correctly (except the part below). The emails are collecting on the server and I can view/compose/reply/etc on webmail, but both outlook and thunderbird aren't getting the messages and I'm not getting any connection errors. To fix this, I restarted exim (I didn't know if that was correct) and I notified my hosting company because it didn't fix the problem. They went in and restarted vm-pop3d and da-popb4smtp. Still no luck. Email still works on the server but not via outlook/thunderbird.
Then, later today, my sever was VERY sluggish. I thought it might have been a DOS attack but they said that there was no evidence of it and so they looked at the processes and they said PHP was being a hog. Once the restarted httpd they said it returned to normal.
I'm thinking I have a problem and I'm turning here to get some help. The server has been running, for the most part pretty well. However it went down on Feb 10, Mar 2, May 4 and May 14. I think that I need to optimize it a bit and I was wondering if anyone can please give me some advice to getting things running leaner and meaner?
Also... The priority, is getting the email working correctly. It is server wide (not a domain issue).
I am hitting a limit on number of POP signons per hour imposed by my host. I host maybe 10 domains on this account and have 4 or 5 email addresses to monitor for each domain. If I check once every 15 minutes I run up against a limit on the number of POP3 signons permitted by my ip. Add this to having multiple mail clients behind a NAT router and I am beginning to have real problems.
Does anyone else have this issue? Is my only workaround to forward all email to a single account or install a local mail server? Does 100 POP signons an hour from a single IP sound like a lot to anyone? Any advice?
I just googeling about the things come to know about the pop3 gateway (catch all). I want to know that what it is meant for and how to add it in my lx admin control panel account.
Even though I have temporarily installed Exchange Server on my dedicated server, I still am thinking about using POP3 instead, simply because of multiple email accounts and my outlook client can use multiple email accounts, and setup rules/filters to direct incoming emails to specific recepients to folders, which is what I want.
Sure, in Windows I know how to set up POP3 BUT what security can I setup for POP3 email accounts?
In addition, what about spam/filtering? How would I set that up to stop spam coming in?
I just purchased an almost bare VPS and installed Cpanel myself. Problem is the mail is not working right. I connect, try and login and repeatedly get Login Failed. I've tried re-creating the emails accounts, i've tried the default mail account that gets created, and i've tried logging into the webmail with the same login problems. I've also telneted to my server from my pc fine, but once again the login just fails. This made me look towards there being a server misconfiguration... because these are newly created mail accounts with correctly entered details. In WHM, i tried restarting the POP3 service and the output doesn't look usual..
Attempting to restart cppop Waiting for cppop to restart.... . . . . . . . . . . finished.
cppop status couriertcpd is disabled Service: [cppop] has been disabled by the sys admin
Not sure if it's related or how to fix it... could really use the help since all my mail will probably get dropped after DNS propogation goes thru =/
will time i sent one e-mail of my gmail or ... to my account in my server,i can`t received it good don`t take any error in outlook i use of cpanel do you can say that log mail is in where?
I'd like to back one of our servers up using S3 but I'm not sure the best way to go. Server is using CPanel. Obviously I want to keep costs down.
I need the files to be secure, backups need to be nightly incremental, and I need to be able to restore to another CPanel server fast in case of hardware failure. CPanel supports FTP for backups. I currently back up to another server, but I want to move to the cloud.
Specific questions I have:
1. Any recommendations on a cloud backup service (S3, Rackspace, etc?), and why?
2. Any recommendations on tools? I want this to be simple to set up. As easy as setting up an FTP account.
3. Is there another option I should consider? That server has about 62GB of data on it to be backed up.
