[Dovecot] Not backing up cache files

[Timo Sirainen]

On 26.3.2014, at 10.05, Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es> wrote:

> I am using mdbox for dovecot storage.
> 
> I wonder if I could skip "dovecot.index.cache" files and, in general,
> "*.cache" files when doing mail backup. Those files are big and change
> frequently. What I feel from reading documentation [1][2] is that they
> could be dropped in the backups, to be recreated on the fly if needed.

Yeah. dovecot.index.cache files never contain anything that can't be regenerated (except maildir messages' save-timestamps, but those are pretty much irrelevant).