I had JUST got Virtualmin up and running as required, JUST finished dumping old mail into it through IMAP folders, and the £$%^&ing HDD failed.
It would appear that doing the backup actually tipped the drive over the edge, so I dont even have a complete backup of the drive.
I have put a new drive in the machine and have reinstalled, (as with all IT… IT MUST BE RUNNING). The old drive will still fire up, load and work for a while, until it gets too stressed then bums out again.
My Question is: I cannot complete a backup using the virtualmin web interface. Is there a way of plugging the drive into a USB caddy and copying the old emails off the system? I assume its a case of dumping them into the relevant HOME directory, but do I need to update any DBs or lists with the emails I’m pulling across?
If all you’re looking to do is get email from your old drive to your new one – email is just a bunch of text files, and there’s nothing else you’d need to do… you can simply copy email from the old drive to your new one.
I just wanted to verify – did you get this working? According to another a post you made in another forum thread, it sounds like you successfully retrieved your files, but I just wanted to make sure!
If I connect the HDD to another machine, it will boot up and give me access, but it wont connect to a network. So I was able to SEE the file to nano it and copy the details.
I tried to mount the HDD through a caddy to the server. Webmin did detect the drive and give me the option to mount it, but I got errors about invalid files and mount points.