doveadm backup -- private flags in shared mailbox

[almut bertha]

Hi Timo,

>> dear list,
>> i try to backup our dovecot server via
>>
>> doveadm -Dv backup -A -n inbox -n shared  remote:vmail at 192.168.122.51
>>
>> So far, it's working fine except for one thing: the "seen"flags for the
>> shared mailboxes don't get copied to the backup-server. I tried a few
>> things
>> (like calling the doveadm command with different options for the
>> namespaces or defining the mailboxes -m; i also changed the path for
>> INDEXPVT),
>> but none of these worked and i don't know how to tell doveadm to sync
>> these flags.
>> Maybe the config for the namespaces is wrong?
>>
>> Or is it just not possible (yet)?
> 
> Try adding -f parameter? It's probably skipping those folders because it thinks they're already synced. You anyway need to sync each shared folder as each user, but I think that command would be doing it.
> 

Thanks a lot! But adding the -f parameter made no difference (i also ran
the command several times), maybe i'm having a completely different
problem.. I will keep searching ..


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