<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hello all! </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">After reading some of the past threads on backups, I was wondering if I could get a sanity check... I run a Maildir configuration for a small (10 mailboxes) mail server. Using "<i>doveadm backup"</i>, for each mailbox I do:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">- Weekly full backups and then copy the files to a network-based filesystem.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">- Daily incremental backups and then copy the files to a network-based filesystem.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">My recovery assumption is that in case of hardware failure, I would re-set up the mail service and for each mailbox I will recover at the right directory the latest full mailbox backup and on top of it, each incremental backup to the latest day. Does this sound like a sound strategy?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Also, I was thinking of setting up a second dovecot server on another server and replicating my primary on an hourly basis to decrease recovery time. But I looked at mbsync and it seems to require mailbox login/password for each mailbox (which I don't have). Is there an alternative?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thank you!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div></body></html>