Back up and Restore
You can back up/restore system configurations of MailPlus Server, and back up existing mailboxes and email messages.
To back up system configurations:
With the Hyper Backup package, you can back up mail system configurations to a MailPlus-compatible Synology NAS.
- Open Hyper Backup on the source Synology NAS.
- Click + on the bottom-left corner to create a data backup task.
- Select either type of backup destination:
- Local Shared Folder & External Storage: The configurations will be backed up to the local Synology NAS or an externally attached USB/SD storage device.
- Remote Synology NAS: The configurations will be backed up to a remote Synology NAS, where the Hyper Backup Vault package should be installed and running.
- Specify the remaining task settings (see instructions) to finish the task setup.
- When prompted to select applications to back up, choose MailPlus Server.
- After the backup task is set up and run successfully, configurations in the following tabs will be backed up:
- Domain
- Mail Delivery
- Service
- Security
- Auditing
- License
- Account
To back up mailboxes and email messages:
You can back up all mailboxes and email messages to a MailPlus-compatible Synology NAS.
- Go to Control Panel > Shared Folder Sync on the source Synology NAS.
- Follow the instructions (see here) to create a folder-sync task for the MailPlus shared folder and get the destination ready for the sync.
- After the sync is complete, all the mailboxes and messages will be backed up to the destination.
Note:
- Do not use the Cloud Station Server package or the Drive package for backup. Data crashes may occur in its two-way sync operation.
- If a MailPlus shared folder has existed on the destination, after the backup it will be renamed as MailPlus_1:
- To use data in MailPlus_1: Manually move them to the MailPlus shared folder.
- To avoid account errors: Connect the destination to the same directory server (e.g. LDAP server or Windows AD domain) used by the source.
To restore system configurations, mailboxes, and emails:
- Go to the destination Synology NAS, where the backed-up configurations, mailboxes, and emails are stored in local shared folders.
- Open Hyper Backup.
- Restore the backed-up configurations from the local shared folder (see instructions).
- After the restoration is complete, the current MailPlus Server configurations will be overwritten.
- The backed-up mailboxes and emails are readily available here without restoration.
- Contact Synology Technical Support to migrate your MailPlus Server licenses from the source Synology NAS to the destination Synology NAS.
- After license migration, the destination will start running the mail service.
Note:
- The backup and restoration feature is supported on MailPlus Server 1.0-164 and above with DSM 6.0 and above.