Backup procedures

[Benny Pedersen]

On 2022-02-11 12:33, Jorge Bastos wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I have a particular situation where I have about 5 users using a large
> account in IMAP, and I have the need to backup the account daily or
> weekly or so.
> I was thinking about to copy the whole directory, each email is a
> file, it could probably work, but the dovecot index files would be
> damaged/wrong.
> 
> Is there a tool that could perform a backup (ex: yesterday), and when
> I inserted that backup, it just insert the emails and folders that
> were deleted today?

linux: imapsync
windows: google aid4mail
dovecot: ask help with better wiki for dovecot on replications, but even 
if this works its not backup, delete one msg deletes backup, hmm, 
chicken and egg here