Backing up dovecot mailboxes
Does anyone have a working solution as to how I can use "doveadm backup" to back up a virtual users mailbox to a removable USB device.
I keep receiving numerous errors and no files are backed up although the directories are created.
-- Jerry
On Qua, 09 Nov 2016, Jerry wrote:
Does anyone have a working solution as to how I can use "doveadm backup" to back up a virtual users mailbox to a removable USB device.
I keep receiving numerous errors and no files are backed up although the directories are created.
No, but I can recommend a solution with rsync. Just use it to copy the
directories where mail is stored. Depending on the format, you may
need to save the indexes too.
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI eduardo@kalinowski.com.br
On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 11:50:06 -0500 Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote:
Does anyone have a working solution as to how I can use "doveadm backup" to back up a virtual users mailbox to a removable USB device.
I keep receiving numerous errors and no files are backed up although the directories are created.
Well, a solution I demonstrated in our previous thread on this same
topic works for me (doveadm user * plus dsync.
The thread got derailed into into discussion of how to use
doveadm backup properly to have a one-step backup of all the virtual
users, but it was sadly inconclusive.
All-in-all, we need to see exact commands you run and exact error messages you receive to be able to do suggestions or at least informed guesses.
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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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Jerry
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Konstantin Khomoutov