Sieve scripts not backed up

[Marc Weustink]

(now from my subscribed account)

Hi all.
I try to backup out sieve scripts through
 doveadm  -o stats_writer_socket_path=  backup -R -u marc -N 
tcp:<remote.host>:4191

All mail is backed up but no scripts. What am I doing wrong ?

Thanks Marc

 doveconf -n

# 2.3.4 (0ecbaf23d): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.5.4 (60b0f48d)
# OS: Linux 4.4.0-137-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS autofs
# Hostname: xxx
dict {
  acl = pgsql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql-local.conf.ext
}
doveadm_password = # hidden, use -P to show it
mail_debug = yes
mail_gid = vmail
mail_home = /home/mail/backup/%n
mail_location = maildir:/home/mail/backup/%n/mail
mail_uid = vmail
managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope 
encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric 
relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify 
environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext
namespace Shared {
  location = 
maildir:/home/mail/backup/Common/mail:INDEXPVT=/home/mail/backup/%n/mail/common
  prefix = Shared/
  separator = /
  subscriptions = no
  type = public
}
namespace Users {
  list = children
  location = 
maildir:/home/mail/backup/%%n/mail:INDEXPVT=/home/mail/backup/%n/mail/shared/%%n
  prefix = Users/%%n/
  separator = /
  subscriptions = no
  type = shared
}
namespace inbox {
  inbox = yes
  location =
  mailbox Drafts {
    special_use = \Drafts
  }
  mailbox Junk {
    special_use = \Junk
  }
  mailbox Sent {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox "Sent Messages" {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox Trash {
    special_use = \Trash
  }
  prefix =
  separator = /
  type = private
}
passdb {
  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
  driver = sql
}
plugin {
  acl = vfile
  acl_shared_dict = proxy::acl
  sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve
}
protocols = sieve
service auth {
  unix_listener auth-userdb {
    mode = 0777
  }
}
service dict {
  unix_listener dict {
    group = vmail
    user = vmail
  }
}
ssl = no
userdb {
  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
  driver = sql
}