On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 09:03, Les Stott wrote:
> Would it be possible to use backuppc to suck mail directly out of imap,
> say for instance with the perl module IMAP::Client? (granted you would
> need to know usernames and passwords to login to the imap store)
>
> I know that in most cases this can be done at a filesystem level (e.g.
> Maildirs - cyrus imap) with rsync direct, but what if you use something
> like Scalix which uses a "database like" indexed structure, with 1 giant
> data directory, and no easy way to discern which files belong to which user.
> If you could pull data out via imap then you have a "true" "bricks level
> recovery" strategy.
>
> Is it possible? has anyone done it?
You'd have to make it look like a tar file before it gets to
backuppc. There are some utilities around that can copy
mailboxes via imap as long as the server has an administrator
account that can access everything. You might run that
first to duplicate the mailboxes to a server that has
maildir style folders like currier or dovecot, then let
backuppc copy those folders. Or use that code as a starting
point for a new backuppc method.
--
Les Mikesell
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