[Dovecot] Anyone successfully setup Continous Backup of mailboxes using rsync ?

[CoolAtt NNA]

It means if I create a new mailbox and I restore the emails at mail level(individual files) ,will it work correctly?
And if I restore the same mail to an existing mailbox ??

Thanks 
CoolAtt  

> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:56:06 +0100
> From: lists at luigirosa.com
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Anyone successfully setup Continous Backup of mailboxes using rsync ?
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> CoolAtt NNA said the following on 29/01/10 06:47:
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> > Can you please explain how you do the restore?
> 
> I always restore at folder level, not mail level: in this case is the user that
> choose what to restore and I don't need to read the user's mail.
> 
> I create a .Restore directory and copy into it the restored folder files: the
> users simply sees a Restore folder and do whatevere he/she wants.
> 
> > If I simply copy a mailfile  e.g "MailDir/cur/my-email-file:2,S" to "MailDir/cur/" on the live system, are there issues associated 
> > with it ?
> 
> With a standard configuration there are no issues at all. Check that the
> permissions and user/group of restored files are ok.
> 
> 
> 
> Ciao,
> luigi
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