sdbox filesystem backup potential excludes

[Daniel Miller]

On 8/14/2018 10:41 PM, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>
> On 14.08.2018 21:23, Daniel Miller wrote:
>> On 8/14/2018 12:55 AM, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>>> On 13.08.2018 19:51, Daniel Miller wrote:
>>>> When doing a filesystem backup of an moderate sdbox mailstore (300GB)
>>>> - are there any files that can be safely excluded from the backup?
>>>> Like *.log or *.backup?  Or are they all "vital" for recovery?
>>>>
>>>> I'm already excluding the sdbox/virtual folders as it looks like they
>>>> get created and updated as needed.
>>>>
>>> Hi, can you provide 'doveconf -n'. sdbox/virtual folders are not part of
>>> sdbox mail format. In general, if you want to avoid data loss, you can
>>> only omit dovecot.index.cache files, but omitting these can come with
>>> high impact when they are regenerated. Omitting dovecot.index.log or
>>> dovecot.index will cause loss of flags.
>>>
>>> Aki
>> I have virtual folders enabled & defined.
>>
>> What does "high impact" mean?  A few seconds to a few minutes on
>> initial mailbox opening for regeneration?  I can live with that as
>> this is for emergency backup/restore purposes.
> It means there will be nothing cached, it depends on your users and what
> they do. If they only open first 20 mails it will not be that bad.
Ok...so I'm *probably* ok excluding cache files then...

>> mmap_disable = yes
> If you are not using NFS, don't disable mmap.
I'm using NFS.  Mail server is running in VirtualBox guest, mounting the 
host's native storage via NFS.

>>    mailbox virtual/Flagged {
>>      comment = All my flagged messages
>>      special_use = \Flagged
>>    }
> You can't "alias" folders like this.
Maybe not...but it works <grin>.
>
>> namespace virtual {
>>    list = children
>>    location = virtual:/var/mail/%d/%n/sdbox/virtual
>>    prefix = virtual/
>>    separator = /
>>    subscriptions = no
>> }
>   
> You should really not put the virtual indexes inside sdbox directory,
> this can confuse sdbox. You should put this under
> /var/mail/%d/%n/virtual instead.
>
I haven't had any errors show up...but if it's incorrect then I'll try 
changing it.

Daniel