> On 21 Feb 2019, at 7.04, SH Development via dovecot <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Not really. The suggestions in the post seemed to be:
>
> 1. Tar the whole directory, which I have tried in the past, but a 130G
> directory takes over 18 hours to tar.
> 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.
>
> 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.
root@ketola ~]# mkdir -p /backup/sami
root@ketola ~]# chown vmail:vmail /backup/sami
root@ketola ~]# doveadm backup -u sami Maildir:/backup/sami
<snip>
root@ketola ~]# du -hs /backup/sami
211M /backup/sami
does this help?
Sami
