[Dovecot] Backup recovery with mdbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On 5.10.2010, at 13.56, Andre Nathan wrote:

> I'm using mdbox for mail storage. I'd like to give users an option to
> recover backups into a new folder, say, Backup-$date.
> 
> Is there a simple way to do this? I was looking at tools like dsync and
> doveadm-altmove but apparently they're not intended for this kind of
> stuff.

dsync could work, although with some small kludging:

1. Put the old backup to e.g. ~/backup

2. Rename the mailbox to whatever you want in destination, e.g. mv ~/backup/mailboxes/foo ~/backup/mailboxes/foo-$date

3. Copy the mailbox: dsync -m foo-$date mirror mdbox:~/backup