"doveadm backup/sync" are badly documented (SOLVED AND BUG REPORT!)

[Jesus Cea]

On 28/09/14 23:52, Jesus Cea wrote:
[..]
> This will "backup" this mailing list mailbox to "/tmp/aa". Good. Lets
> try thru SSH:
> 
> $ doveadm backup -u jcea  -m proveedores/dovecot ssh 127.0.0.1 dsync -u
> jcea mdbox:/tmp/aa/
> jcea at 127.0.0.1's password:
> Fatal: Invalid parameter: mdbox:/tmp/aa/
> dsync-local(jcea): Error: read(remote) failed: EOF (version not received)
> 
> How shoudl I do it?.

Trying a few things I got here, that works:

$ doveadm -o mail_fsync=never -o mdbox_rotate_interval=99d -o
mdbox_rotate_size=10M -o mail_attachment_dir=/tmp/aa/attachments -o
mail_attachment_min_size=64k -o mail_attachment_hash=%{sha256} -o
mail_location=mdbox:/tmp/aa/:DIRNAME=XxX backup  -m 'varios/nosotros' -R
 ssh 127.0.0.1 doveadm dsync-server

Two things:

1. I am connecting to myself thru SSH. I want to do a copy of my mdbox
with a different configuration. I was not able to transfer that
configuration change to thru SSH, so I just reverse the data flow
direction (The "-R"): just connect to the regular mailbox_location and
bring data here to be stored with a different configuration. This was a
kind of enlightment.

2. You must do "ssh 127.0.0.1 doveadm dsync-server" instead of simply
"ssh 127.0.0.1" because you would get this error:

bash: dsync-server: command not found
dsync-local(jcea): Error: read(remote) failed: EOF (version not received)
dsync-local(jcea): Error: Remote command returned error 127: ssh
127.0.0.1 dsync-server

I guess dovecot is sending the legacy "dsync-server" instead of the
current "doveadm dsync-server".

LOOKS LIKE THAT IS A BUG!!.

> $ doveadm backup -h
> backup: invalid option -- 'h'
> doveadm backup [-u <user>|-A] [-S <socket_path>] [-dfR] [-l <secs>] [-r
> <rawlog path>] [-m <mailbox>] [-n <namespace> | -N] [-x <exclude>] [-s
> <state>] <dest>
> 
> I can't find any explanation at all about the different parameters of
> "doveadm backup".

Please, document.

> Same thing with "doveadm sync".

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