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Update mox installation on debian
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Fix backup dir
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14 changes: 7 additions & 7 deletions tutorials/install-and-configure-mailserver-mox-on-debian/01.en.md
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Expand Up @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ To access the management UI of Mox, a WireGuard network is strongly recommended.
As an alternative you can connect via SSH port re-direction.
For further help, see:

* Hetzner community tutorial [Installing and configuring a WireGuard VPN server on Debian](https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/install-and-configure-wireguard-vpn-debian)
* [WireGuard on Debian](https://wiki.debian.org/WireGuard) » "Step 2 - Alternative A - Manual Configuration"
* [Step-by-step setup of WireGuard](https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Debian_12&p=wireguard&f=1)

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hcloud server set-rdns --hostname mail.example.com --ip 2001:db8:5678::1 <your_host>
```

> **Advanced and out-of-scope**: This setup demonstrates the installation of Mox in a basic, but still safe way. Consider hardening the server even more (e.g. root access, local firewall). If you consider a proxy, please be aware that the mail server needs the real IP of the connection.
> **Advanced and out-of-scope**: This setup demonstrates the installation of Mox in a basic, but still safe way. Consider hardening the server even more (e.g. root access, local firewall). If you consider a proxy, please be aware that the mail server needs the real IP of the remote connection for reputation management.


### Step 2.1 - Reputation of IP addresses
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Mox is a single binary file, so that's all.

Use the [`quickstart` command](https://www.xmox.nl/commands/) to generate the setup:
Use the [`quickstart` command](https://www.xmox.nl/commands/#hdr-mox-quickstart) to generate the setup:

```bash
su - mox
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* **Import and export**

Check [Import mailboxes](https://www.xmox.nl/commands/#hdr-mox-export-maildir) to import mails, e.g. for a Dovecot migration.
Check [Import mailboxes](https://www.xmox.nl/commands/#hdr-mox-import-maildir) to import mails, e.g. for a Dovecot migration.

<br>

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* **Backup**

As a *starting point* for a backup, use this script
As a *starting point* for a backup, use this script (mox version v0.0.15 or higher is required):

```bash
#!/bin/bash
MOXDIR=/home/mox
MOXBACKUPDIR=${MOXDIR}/data/tmp/backup
rm -rf ${MOXBACKUPDIR}
/home/mox/mox backup ${MOXBACKUPDIR}/data
/home/mox/mox backup ${MOXBACKUPDIR}
/home/mox/mox verifydata ${MOXBACKUPDIR}/data
cp -rp ${MOXDIR}/config/ ${MOXBACKUPDIR}/config
```

Now backup `MOXBACKUPDIR` to another server (e.g with `restic` or other backup tools).
Now backup `MOXBACKUPDIR` to another server (e.g with `restic` or other backup tools). As the backup destination needs to be cleared for each mox backup you may need to adapt your backup tool call for incremental/differential backups, e.g. with `restic` ignore inodes with `restic backup --ignore-inode ... ${MOXBACKUPDIR}`.


## Conclusion
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