Re: One-off backup

Depending on your setup, abilities and intended results, you might also wish consider offlineimap and imapsync, with which you could maintain an updated offsite copy going forwards.

P.

On 10/10/22 22:57, Ian Evans wrote:

I run a small email server for me and the missus. Six dovecot users.

Our host is migrating our server instance. They usually (99.9999% lol) go off without a hitch.

As we don't have dovecot running elsewhere, I'm assuming doveadm is the wrong tool.

If we want to make a one-off backup prior to the migration, is shutting down postfix and running tar czf mailstorage.tgz /path/to/mail okay?

Thanks.