On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:00:49PM +0200, Henny Zutt wrote: > Hi group, > > I am a newbie with offlineIMAP, so have some patience ....... > > I've looked on the net, but could not find a proper procedure to restore > a folder i backuped with > offlineIMAP from a synology NAS. (192.168.2.99)
Did you read this: http://www.offlineimap.org/documentation.html#make-backups-of-a-mailbox ? > This is my simple script to make the backup ( on a debian linux system > under user miep) > > #!/bin/sh > PATH=/opt/someApp/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin > > /usr/bin/offlineimap >> /home/miep/imap.log 2>&1 offlineimap is not a backup tool on its own. > echo `date +%d-%m-%y` >> /home/miep/imap.log > tail -2 imap.log |mail -s "Backup-Mail-miep" [email protected] Bad, you're missing the status code. > /bin/rm /home/miep/imap.log Bad, you're removing history or the runs. Make proper logs and keep history. Look at logrotate. > How do i restore a single folder or if thats not possible the whole set > from the debian linux system > back to the server ? ( in a different user ?) Look our online documentation. From there, it should be easy to figure what you want in a per folder basis. Hint: observe the structure of the cache and don't forget to include this in the backups. ,-) -- Nicolas Sebrecht _______________________________________________ OfflineIMAP-project mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/offlineimap-project OfflineIMAP homepages: - https://github.com/OfflineIMAP - http://offlineimap.org
