Assistance with doveadm backup...

[SH Development]

Ok, so for lack of any other information, am I to conclude that the doveadm backup command is broken in 2.0.9?  I have been through the wiki for it back and forth and cannot make it work.

Yes, I need to upgrade, there is no question, but I won’t do that without a maildir backup.  I would prefer to use the built-in dovecot mechanisms for that than something else.

Jeff

> On Mar 10, 2019, at 12:09 PM, SH Development via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org <mailto:dovecot at dovecot.org>> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>>> 
>>>> ---
>>>> Aki Tuomi
>>> 
>> 
>> ---
>> Aki Tuomi
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