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Convert MBox Accounts to Mail Dir
Convert the mail format for email address on a cPanel account. MBox is the original and ancient format for storing mail on Unix systems, it consists of a single file per user under /var/spool/mail that has messages concatenated. Obviously, performance is very poor when deleting messages from a large mail store as the entire file has to be rewritten.
Maildir was invented for Qmail by Dan Bernstein and has a single message per file giving fast deletes among other performance benefits. Maildir mail storage speeds up the functionality of the mail server and reduces memory usage due to mail-related processes. Multiple processes can use maildirs at the same time.
It is time to convert Mbox accounts to Maildir on your cPanel server.
convert mbox to maildir
How to Convert MBox accounts to MailDir cPanel
The conversion process may take up to 24 hours. This depends on your server’s hardware and the number of accounts to convert.
You cannot send or receive mail while the server is in the conversion process. Try to run this process at an off-peak time.
Use the following ssh command to access the Mail Directory Conversion System.
# /scripts/convert2maildir
Enter 1 to convert your server from mbox to the Maildir storage format with Courier as the mail server.
Enter 2 to convert your server from mbox to the Maildir storage format with Dovecot as the mail server.
Once completed, If you will have any issue with webmail, run below command to fix it.
# /scripts/mailperm
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Database Automatic Backup Shell Script
Auto backup script for cPanel We can backup our databases using different methods, Here is the shell script used for automatic backup MySQL databases using mysqldump in your cpanel server. The following instruction can be used to backup any database. The only requirement is that you are using a Linux server to host your files and mysql user privileges. Use this Database Automatic backup Shell script via cron job.
Database Auto Backup Solution 1
Login your cPanel – > Click Cron Job icon
Database Automatic backup Shell script
You can set the time and frequency to backup the database. Under the command field, copy and paste the following command:
mysqldump –opt -Q -u dbusername –password=dbpassword dbname | gzip > /backup/db_backup.sql.gz
Replace dbusername with the database user
Replace dbpassword with the database user password
Replace dbname with the database that you are backing up
Replace the /backup folder to the file path in your server where you want to save the backup
Database Auto Backup Solution 2
AutoMySQLBackup with a basic configuration will create Daily, Weekly and Monthly backups of one or more of your MySQL databases from one or more of your MySQL servers.
Other Features include:
– Email notification of backups
– Backup Compression and Encryption
– Configurable backup rotation
– Incremental database backups
Please make sure you haven’t any corrupted database tables. Because it will not backup properly when you run this script.
How to install Database Automatic backup Shell script
Download automatica mysql database backup script
#cd /usr/local/src/
#wget
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/automysqlbackup/AutoMySQLBackup/AutoMySQLBackup%20VER%203.0/automysqlbackup-v3.0_rc6.tar.gz
#tar -zxvf automysqlbackup-v3.0_rc6.tar.gz
Run the install.sh script.
#./install.sh
Edit the /etc/automysqlbackup/myserver.conf file and remove # to update database user and passwor settings, Backup directory location.
vi /etc/automysqlbackup/automysqlbackup.conf
# Username to access the MySQL server e.g. dbuser
CONFIG_mysql_dump_username=’root’
# Password to access the MySQL server e.g. password
CONFIG_mysql_dump_password=’password’
# Backup directory location e.g /backups
CONFIG_backup_dir=’/var/backup/db’
Run backup script via command line simply by running the following command.
#automysqlbackup /etc/automysqlbackup/automysqlbackup.conf
Done!! You can check DB backup folder.
Automysqlbackup can be run a number of ways, you can choose which is best for you.
1. Create a script as below called runmysqlbackup using the lines below:
vi runmysqlbackup.sh
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/automysqlbackup /etc/automysqlbackup/automysqlbackup.conf
chown root.root /backup/db* -R
find /backup/db* -type f -exec chmod 400 {} ;
find /backup/db* -type d -exec chmod 700 {} ;
2. Save it to a suitable location or copy it to your /etc/cron.daily folder.
3. Make it executable, i.e. chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/runmysqlbackup
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