dear list, i try to backup our dovecot server via

doveadm -Dv backup -A -n inbox -n shared remote:vmail@192.168.122.51

So far, it's working fine except for one thing: the "seen"flags for the shared mailboxes don't get copied to the backup-server. I tried a few things (like calling the doveadm command with different options for the namespaces or defining the mailboxes -m; i also changed the path for INDEXPVT), but none of these worked and i don't know how to tell doveadm to sync these flags. Maybe the config for the namespaces is wrong?

Or is it just not possible (yet)?

thanks in advance

The configs for the source and the backup server are the same: (except for hostname, ip,...)

# 2.2.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.8 (0c4ae064f307+) # OS: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian stretch/sid ext4 auth_verbose = yes default_client_limit = 2500 default_process_limit = 500 disable_plaintext_auth = no doveadm_port = 11111 lmtp_rcpt_check_quota = yes lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = yes mail_location = maildir:/srv/vmail/%n/Maildir mail_plugins = " acl quota" managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate imapflags notify namespace { hidden = no inbox = no list = children location = maildir:/srv/vmail/%%n/Maildir:INDEXPVT=/srv/vmail/%n/shared/%%n prefix = shared.%%n. separator = . subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace inbox { hidden = no ignore_on_failure = no inbox = yes list = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = INBOX. separator = . subscriptions = yes type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300 acl_shared_dict = file:/var/lib/dovecot/db/shared-mailboxes.db mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename quota = maildir:User quota:noenforcing quota_grace = 2%% quota_rule = *:storage=3G sieve = /srv/vmail/%Ln/default.sieve sieve_default = /srv/vmail/default.sieve sieve_dir = /srv/vmail/%Ln/sieve sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags sieve_global_dir = /srv/vmail/global.sieve/ } postmaster_address = postmaster@mur.at protocols = " imap lmtp sieve pop3" quota_full_tempfail = yes service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0777 user = vmail } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 192.168.122.52 port = 24 } user = vmail } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } process_min_avail = 1 service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 64 M } service managesieve { process_limit = 256 } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-group-userdb.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " acl quota sieve" } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 16 mail_plugins = " acl quota imap_acl imap_quota" } protocol sieve { managesieve_implementation_string = Dovecot Pigeonhole } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = " acl quota" }