restoring e-mail forwarders form cpbackup?

[yemoller]

I had to restore a couple of accounts on my server form cpbackups today and now I'm noticing that e-mail forwarders were not restored on some accounts.

I have a couple of older cpbackups of the accounts but I'm unable to find any files in the backups that contain the forwarders.


How do i restore e-mail forwarders only form a cpbackup (what file do i copy to the users account)?


Any help is appreciated!

[tweakservers]

there is an option in the WHM Backup > restore backup function that shows " Restore Mail Config", try that out.

[Messiah]

Mail forwarders are listed in text files contained within /etc/valiases/. For example, an alias blahblah@google.com that forwards to postmaster@google.com would be recorded as the following entry in /etc/valiases/google.com
blahblah@google.com: postmaster@google.com

So basically, all the forwarders for example.com are contained within /etc/valiases/example.com. The entire valiases directory is backed up with cpbackups. You'll need to extract the tarball then copy the domain's valias file to /etc/valiases/. Here's an example:
I'll pretend you're restoring forwarders for example.com, and that your backup directory is /backup, and that you are restoring the daily backup:
tar -xzf /backup/cpbackup/daily/dirs/_etc_valiases.tar.gz
cp -p /backup/cpbackup/daily/dirs/etc/valiases/example.com /etc/valiases/example.com

You'll be prompted to overwrite. Confirm. That should do it.

[yemoller]

Thanks Messiah, found the forwarders !!

Strange though, that only some accounts were affected.