Message Store Disaster Backup and Recovery

A disaster refers to a catastrophic failure of the entire message store. That is, a situation where all data on the message store servers are lost. A complete message store disaster restore will consist of restoring the following lost data:

• All message store data. These can be backed up using the procedures described in Backing Up and Restoring the Message Store. If file system backup method is used, be sure to backup the following data:

  • All message store partitions

  • The message store database files at msg_svr_base/data/store/mboxlist.

  The message store database snapshots at msg_svr_base/data/store/dbdata/snapshots (note that the location of message store database snapshot files can be configured with the configutil parameter local.store.snapshotpath) (If file system backup is used, run reconstruct -m after these data are restored.)

• All configuration data. Including:

  • local configuration file at msg_svr_base/data/config

  • The Messaging Server configuration data in the LDAP Directory Server