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.

  1. Open Hyper Backup on the source Synology NAS.
  2. Click + on the bottom-left corner to create a data backup task.
  3. Select either type of backup destination:
  4. Specify the remaining task settings (see instructions) to finish the task setup.
  5. When prompted to select applications to back up, choose MailPlus Server.
  6. After the backup task is set up and run successfully, configurations in the following tabs will be backed up:

To back up mailboxes and email messages:

You can back up all mailboxes and email messages to a MailPlus-compatible Synology NAS.

  1. Go to Control Panel > Shared Folder Sync on the source Synology NAS.
  2. Follow the instructions (see here) to create a folder-sync task for the MailPlus shared folder and get the destination ready for the sync.
  3. After the sync is complete, all the mailboxes and messages will be backed up to the destination.

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To restore system configurations, mailboxes, and emails:

  1. Go to the destination Synology NAS, where the backed-up configurations, mailboxes, and emails are stored in local shared folders.
  2. Open Hyper Backup.
  3. Restore the backed-up configurations from the local shared folder (see instructions).
  4. After the restoration is complete, the current MailPlus Server configurations will be overwritten.
  5. The backed-up mailboxes and emails are readily available here without restoration.
  6. Contact Synology Technical Support to migrate your MailPlus Server licenses from the source Synology NAS to the destination Synology NAS.
  7. After license migration, the destination will start running the mail service.

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