One-off backup

[Plutocrat]

Depending on your setup, abilities and intended results, you might also wish consider offlineimap and imapsync, with which you could maintain an updated offsite copy going forwards.

P.

On 10/10/22 22:57, Ian Evans wrote:
> I run a small email server for me and the missus. Six dovecot users.
> 
> Our host is migrating our server instance. They usually (99.9999% lol) go off without a hitch.
> 
> As we don't have dovecot running elsewhere, I'm assuming doveadm is the wrong tool.
> 
> If we want to make a one-off backup prior to the migration, is shutting down postfix and running
> tar czf mailstorage.tgz /path/to/mail okay?
> 
> Thanks.