How to restore a specific mail box on the domain from a cpanel backup

[techni]

Accidently deleted mail box of an email account , how can we retrieve that specific mail box of a email account as we have the daily backup from cpanel without disturbing the existing mails
Please let me know how to retrieve it

[techs4gnu]

Hello,

Try the following steps,

1. Extract the backup of the particular user and cd to the extracted folder ( tar -xvzf cpmove-user.tar.gz )

2. There you can see a homedir.tar file; now untar it ( tar -xvf homedir.tar )

3. When untar is over, you can see a "mail" directory.

4. switch to it and you can see the domain.com directory; cd to it and list the files / directroies

5. Now you can see your mail user's email box. Copy it and paste it to /home/user/mail/domain/.com/

6. Make sue a symlink is created /home/user/mail/ to that email folder. You can refer other email account and see those symlinks for reference.

6. Try to send a test mail.

7. Done!

Thank you.

[techni]

Hello

Let me just check as you posted and come back as domain is sizing around 40GB