Backing up and restoring the mailboxes

Maintaining the system : Backup and restore : Backing up and restoring the mailboxes

The Maintenance > System > Mail Data tab lets you back and restore all mail data, including system quarantine, email users’ personal quarantines, user preferences, archived email, and server mode webmail mailboxes. (See also “Selecting the mail data storage location”.) You can also monitor the status of any backup or restoration that is currently in progress.


	You can only back up mail data when you store the data locally on the FortiMail hard disk. If you store the mail data on a NAS device, you cannot back up the data. For information about selecting a storage device, see “Selecting the mail data storage location”.

This section contains the following topics:

• Viewing the mailbox backup/restoration status

• Configuring mailbox backups

• Restoring mailboxes from backups