Current thinking on backups ?

Laura Smith n5d9xq3ti233xiyif2vp at protonmail.ch
Mon May 25 00:42:58 EEST 2020


Hi,

What are people doing for backups ?
My current process is LVM snapshot and backup from that to NFS share.
But there seems to be hints around the internet that people use/abuse "doveadm backup" for backup purposes even though it seems its original intention was for transferring mailboxes between dovecot instances.
Assuming its ok to "doveadm backup" to an NFS share, is it ok to use "doveadm backup" when dovecot has replication setup (replication-notify etc.)  ? Or will it interfere ?
Thanks!
Laura


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