doveadm backup -- private flags in shared mailbox

[Timo Sirainen]

> On 04 Feb 2016, at 11:26, almut bertha <almutb at mur.at> wrote:
> 
> dear list,
> i try to backup our dovecot server via
> 
> doveadm -Dv backup -A -n inbox -n shared  remote:vmail at 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)?

Try adding -f parameter? It's probably skipping those folders because it thinks they're already synced. You anyway need to sync each shared folder as each user, but I think that command would be doing it.