<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Not really. The suggestions in the post seemed to be:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. Tar the whole directory, which I have tried in the past, but a 130G directory takes over 18 hours to tar.</div><div class="">2. It was also suggested to rsync the directory, but the question was brought up, and not answered, about whether it was advisable to copy live mail, thus the need for doveadm sync/backup.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Based on what I’ve read about doveadm backup, this is what I need, I am just having a hard time formulating the syntax for the command.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jeff<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 20, 2019, at 10:45 PM, @lbutlr via dovecot <<a href="mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org" class="">dovecot@dovecot.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">On Feb 20, 2019, at 21:11, SH Development via dovecot <<a href="mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org" class="">dovecot@dovecot.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Can someone help get me started here?</div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Does this help?</span><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/489331/what-is-the-correct-way-to-use-doveadm-to-backup-emails" class="">https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/489331/what-is-the-correct-way-to-use-doveadm-to-backup-emails</a><br class=""><br class=""></span></font><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">-- </span><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">This is my signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>