Assistance with doveadm backup...
SH Development
listaccount at starionline.com
Sun Mar 10 00:40:51 EET 2019
Okay, apparently I’m just a complete idiot. Why doesn’t this work?
doveadm -Dv backup -u user Maildir:/mnt/maelstrombackups/vmailbackup
With user being the actual user name.
No backup is created, it just shows me the usage text.
Jeff
> On Feb 20, 2019, at 10:11 PM, SH Development <listaccount at starionline.com> wrote:
>
> I am having trouble locating examples of how to use doveadm backup. All the examples I see are for sync. I simply want to create a backup to a network volume of the email server's vmail folders. The goal here is to have a reasonably current backup should the main drive on the email server go south.
>
> We currently authenticate our users from a mysql database. User’s mailboxes are stored as domainname/username/Maildir
>
> I assume what I will wind up on the network volume is a duplicate directory structure as the vmail folder on the email server?
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> Can someone help get me started here?
>
> Jeff
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