On 23.8.2013, at 13.43, [email protected] wrote: > we are doing regular backups of the mdbox mail folders using > > dsync -u username backup mdbox:/somedir/BACKUPS/username > > (still with version 2.1.10, but 2.2.5 is in testing phase) > We do observe that the directory size in the BACKUPS directory is growing > with respect to the original mail folders. I believe this is due to deleted > mails not being purged in the backup. We are doing regular > > doveadm purge -A > > cleanups, but this does (of course) not affect the backups and subsequent > dsync backup runs seem not to clean up deleted mails in the backup either. > > Will the behaviour of the dsync backup command deal with deleted mails in the > 2.2.5 release? If not, what could we do to get rid of the deleted mails in > the backup (or is there another reason for the growth in size)
You could run the doveadm purge also on the destination, e.g.: doveadm -o mail=mdbox:/backups/user purge I also added -P parameter to do this more easily in v2.2.6: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/56be613e8ece
