[Dovecot] Dsync and SIS

[Timo Sirainen]

On 8.8.2012, at 21.19, Alex Crow wrote:

> Just to clarify, if we back up a dovecot 2 server with SIS for attachments and ALT storage by rsyncing it (including the SIS and ALT storage) to a remote server when it's idle (or at least almost entirely so), and run dovecot on that machine, would it seem feasible to restore backups from that server by using dysnc - specifically for the scenario where someone accidentally deletes emails/folders etc.?

dsync over ssh should work for that, yes. (Locally if you use doveadm import it's going to use the same SIS storage unless you override the settings.)