Re: Assistance with doveadm backup...

11 Mar 2019


      Ok, so for lack of any other information, am I to conclude that the doveadm backup command is broken in 2.0.9?  I have been through the wiki for it back and forth and cannot make it work.
Yes, I need to upgrade, there is no question, but I won’t do that without a maildir backup.  I would prefer to use the built-in dovecot mechanisms for that than something else.
Jeff
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On Mar 10, 2019, at 12:09 PM, SH Development via dovecot mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
Okay then.  Is there a document on how to do that in place?  That was one of the reasons I was trying to do a backup first.
Jeff
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On Mar 10, 2019, at 4:12 AM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
You should upgrade 2.2 first.
Aki
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On 10 March 2019 10:45 SH Development via dovecot mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
V 2.0.9
Jeff
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On Mar 10, 2019, at 12:07 AM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot < dovecot@dovecot.org mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
What version are you using?
Aki
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On 10 March 2019 00:40 SH Development via dovecot < dovecot@dovecot.org mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
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
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On Feb 20, 2019, at 10:11 PM, SH Development < listaccount@starionline.com mailto:listaccount@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

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