[e-mail recover] Single mailbox or item recovery

[AudiAddict]

Some of my users are complaining that we have no single level item recovery possibility.

I know it's possible somehow, but not sure what options are available. Can somebody assist:

- Is it possible to restore a single item? So an e-mail for example? Can somebody explain how to do this? Currently I a making reseller level back-ups from all user accounts.
- Is it possible to restore complete user account to a - temp - user (or automate this proces) and have users log into this webmail and recover his e-mail?
- Are there any options to let users restore there own mail back-ups (or single items)?

Also my mail limits are unlimited now, which is becoming a problem because I have users with several GB's of e-mail. Would it be possible to archive e-mail older than > days and move it to another user account? That way I can set a hard limit for new users and ask the users which have large mailboxes to access there archive mailboxes on my other server (with sata storage).

Thanks for your help in advance.

 

[chatwizrd]

No you would have to buy an email archiver if you want to restore email.

 

[nobaloney]

Is it possible to restore a single item? So an e-mail for example? Can somebody explain how to do this? Currently I a making reseller level back-ups from all user accounts.

We do this manually for users, for a fee. We unzip right on the backup server and find and restore to a special directory we create, restore, at the /home/USERNAME level.

Is it possible to restore complete user account to a - temp - user (or automate this proces) and have users log into this webmail and recover his e-mail?

Yes, not easy, but you could probably do it with DirectAdmin API calls; possibly with a custom plugin. Don't forget that for emails it will only be useful if the backup actually has the email. Email is often transient on a server so finding the backup with the email could be an exercise in futility.

Are there any options to let users restore there own mail back-ups (or single items)?

No.

Also my mail limits are unlimited now, which is becoming a problem because I have users with several GB's of e-mail. Would it be possible to archive e-mail older than > days and move it to another user account? That way I can set a hard limit for new users and ask the users which have large mailboxes to access there archive mailboxes on my other server (with sata storage).

Possibly, but there are already solutions, as user chatwizrd points out. I'd suggest that's a good solution; find one you can resell and turn it into a profit center .

Jeff

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

Hi,

i did made a fast search on google and i found this: http://www.mailpiler.org

What do you think? Specially Jeff, do you think should be included with exim easly and should also be a nice FR for DA Staff to include with DA/CB?

Regards

 

[nobaloney]

I've read (almost) everything on the site, and I'm still not sure how it's expected to work.

My best guess (from reading how you to use it with Google Apps (mailpiler.org) is that you use it at the local level to read and send email.

It appears to have it's own SMTP, POP3 and IMAP servers.

If so, I'm not sure how a hosting company would get involved with it. And I don't see how it would integrate either with Exim or with Dovecot.

If anyone wants to learn it, try it, and report back, that would be helpful.

Jeff