Assistance with doveadm backup...

[SH Development]

Okay, apparently I’m just a complete idiot.  Why doesn’t this work?

doveadm -Dv backup -u user Maildir:/mnt/maelstrombackups/vmailbackup

With user being the actual user name.

No backup is created, it just shows me the usage text.

Jeff

> On Feb 20, 2019, at 10:11 PM, SH Development <listaccount at starionline.com> wrote:
> 
> I am having trouble locating examples of how to use doveadm backup.  All the examples I see are for sync.  I simply want to create a backup to a network volume of the email server's vmail folders.  The goal here is to have a reasonably current backup should the main drive on the email server go south.
> 
> We currently authenticate our users from a mysql database.  User’s mailboxes are stored as domainname/username/Maildir
> 
> I assume what I will wind up on the network volume is a duplicate directory structure as the vmail folder on the email server?
> 
> Can someone help get me started here?
> 
> Jeff