Restore Chatmail relay operator's local PC

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Hi.

I have installed a Chatmail relay. I have a backup of the server. I also have a backup of the local PC’s relay directory from where the installation was done.

Les assume the local PC now explodes spectacularly. The relay keeps smoothly running.

I manage to get a second PC.

What are the exact steps I should take to have again a local PC from where to tune and update my currently running relay?

And what would be the steps If I did not have a backup of the Local PC’s relay directory?

Thank you

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Once you regained root SSH access to the server, all you need is to restore chatmail.ini config and rerun cmdeploy. Usually setting the domain address in default chatmail.ini is enough.

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Let me verify I understand.

I only have one Chatmail server; I keep safe a backup of my local PC’ relay directory and my SSH keys; A burning meteorite falls on my local PC; I want to have a new local PC from where to keep tuning and updating my running Chatmail server.

So on the new local PC:

  1. git clone https://github.com/chatmail/relay
  2. cd relay
  3. scripts/initenv.sh
  4. scripts/cmdeploy init mychatmaildomain.tld
  5. restore chatmail.ini file from backup
  6. restore SSH keys and check ssh root@mychatmaildomain.tld
  7. scripts/cmdeploy run

Is that correct?

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cmdeploy init generates default config. If you restore chatmail.ini anyway from a backup, you don’t need to run init.

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