Re: One-off backup

On 2022-10-10 14:57, 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.

I would say it should be ok as long as its going to be the same setup, but if you are expecting to upgrade dovecot or any other related package, I would then recommend to perform upgrades before migrating and taking the backup, so to guarantee everything is going to be working.