AW: Problem syncing mailboxes using doveadm sync

[Alan McGinlay]

On 2014-06-18 12:28, Przemysław Orzechowski wrote:
> On 18.06.2014 11:28, Patrick De Zordo wrote:
> Would you really "sync" or just "backup"?
> To help decide, are you changing messages on both servers or is the 
> second one just a backup-server?
> 
> In case of backup you could use this command:
> doveadm backup -u user at example.com ssh backup.server.com doveadm 
> dsync-server -u user at example.com
> the problem is messages can be changed on both servers (this
> situation can last for about 1 month till the old server is finally
> retired)
> I have made initial backup using this command
> doveadm -v -o imapc_host=src.srv -o imapc_user=test at domain.tld -o
> pop3c_user=test at domain.tld -o imapc_password='pass' -o
> pop3c_password='pass' -o mail_fsync=never -o mail_prefetch_count=20
> backup -R -u test at domain.tld imapc:
> Backup was successfull
> 
> When i try later to do sync it seems to work only from remote to
> loacal (src.srv to the server im runing dovecot sync command on) and
> not the other way
> if i ommit -R in the sync command dovecot generates an error.
> Could this help you?
> 
> Cheers!
> 
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: dovecot [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] Im Auftrag von
> Przemyslaw Orzechowski
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. Juni 2014 07:28
> An: Dovecot Mailing List
> Betreff: Problem syncing mailboxes using doveadm sync
> 
> Hi
> command im using command bellow on destination server rtying to make
> keep it in sync after initialy doing doveadm backup -R
> 
> doveadm -Dv -o imapc_host=src.srv -o imapc_user=test at domain.tld -
> opop3c_user=test at domain.tld -o imapc_password='pass' -o
> pop3c_password='pass' -o mail_fsync=never -o mail_prefetch_count=20
> sync -f -1 -R -u test at domain.tld imapc:
> 
> Im using dovecot on both source and destination server (source is 
> dovecot
> 1.0.10 destination is 2.2.9)
> 
> Destination box is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with dovecot installed using apt.
> 
> When i create new mail message on the serrver where i run this command 
> its
> not propagated to the remote (old) server Is this command wrong ?

What error is generated when you omit -R ?