Assistance with doveadm backup...

[SH Development]

Okay then.  Is there a document on how to do that in place?  That was one of the reasons I was trying to do a backup first.

Jeff


> On Mar 10, 2019, at 4:12 AM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org <mailto:dovecot at dovecot.org>> wrote:
> 
> You should upgrade 2.2 first.
> 
> Aki
>> On 10 March 2019 10:45 SH Development via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org <mailto:dovecot at dovecot.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> V 2.0.9
>> 
>> Jeff 
>> 
>>> On Mar 10, 2019, at 12:07 AM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot < dovecot at dovecot.org <mailto:dovecot at dovecot.org>> wrote:
>>> What version are you using?
>>> 
>>> Aki
>>>> On 10 March 2019 00:40 SH Development via dovecot < dovecot at dovecot.org <mailto:dovecot at dovecot.org>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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 <mailto: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?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Can someone help get me started here?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jeff
>>> 
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>>> Aki Tuomi
>> 
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> Aki Tuomi

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