Backup procedures

[Jorge Bastos]

Hi Benny,

Well, it's that, the chicken and the egg history!
Not everything's possible, but end users think we do magic.

Thanks for the help,

On 2022-02-11 16:36, Benny Pedersen wrote:

> 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
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