How to Restore only email accounts from a backup file

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Is it possible to restore only email accounts from a backup file?
Thank you in advance.

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move/copy to /home/backup folder then go to :8090/backup/restoreSite (if im not wrong in understanding your problem)

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Just create new emails with same email copy vmail directory from old server and move it to new server

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@shoaibkk thank you so much.

To clarify @shoaibkk answer:

To restore the emails you need to do the following steps:

  1. Create emails on old-server/new-server
  2. Extract the backup archive if you have a backup archive
  3. copy the content form backup or old-server to the new-server/new-location ( if you restore from backup archive just copy files to /home/vmail/domain.ltd )
  4. Fix permission if needed ( optional )

Example:

$ rsync -aP --append --partial /home/domain.ltd/extracted-backup-folder/vmail/* /home/vmail/domain.ltd/
$ chown -R  vmail:vmail /home/vmail/domain.ltd/*