dsync and altpath on shared storage.

[Peter Mogensen]

On 9/2/19 3:03 PM, Sami Ketola wrote:
>> On 2 Sep 2019, at 15.25, Peter Mogensen via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
...
>> Is there anyway for dsync to avoid moving Gigabytes of data for could
>> just be "moved" by moving the mount?
> 
> 
> Not tested but you can probably do something like this in the target server:
> 
> doveadm backup -u victim -R ssh sudouser at old-server "sudo doveadm dsync-server -o mail_location=sdbox:/location-to-your-sdbox/ -u victim"
> 
> just leave ALT storage path from the setting.


I'll have to test this... but my initial guess would be that doveadm
would then think the mails has disappeared. Would it then copy the index
metadata for those mails to the target host anyway?

/Peter