Hello,
when calling doveadm backup like in the following example, it seems to flush every email to disk maxing out harddrives (iops) and resulting in very poor performance:
Calling doveadm -o plugin/quota= backup -u "statusmails@domain.com" "mdbox:/backup/vmail/domain.com/statusmails" finished in 212 secs [changes:1800 copy:1800 delete:0 expunge:0]
The source mdbox holds 1800 small emails and uses about 20 MB disk space only.
I've tried -f (full sync) and -l 30 (locking the mailbox) which did not get faster, nor did doveadm sync -1.
When using doveadm import all mails are copied in less than 3 seconds: time doveadm -o mail=mdbox:/backup/vmail/domain.com/statusmails import mdbox:/var/vmail/domain.com/statusmails "" all real 0m2.605s
Are there any other options I could try to speed up doveadm backup, avoiding the flush after each email?
This is doveadm from dovecot 2.2 (>= 2.2.33). Does anyone get better results with 2.3 tree?
Best regards Gerald