Re: Assistance with doveadm backup...

Well for the purpose of upgrading your server, you could do the following: 1. Rsync your maildir directories to a backup directory 2. repeat rsync again so most of your changed files have been synced 3. shut down your dovecot and smtp servers 4. rsync one more time - should be relatively fast

Re: Assistance with doveadm backup...

I'd say the correct term is not broken but missing. backup was implemented in later version.  With maildir keeping a copy of the content is sufficient backup.  Aki On 11 March 2019 03:39 SH Development via dovecot wrote:

Re: Assistance with doveadm backup...

Ok, so for lack of any other information, am I to conclude that the doveadm backup command is broken in 2.0.9? I have been through the wiki for it back and forth and cannot make it work. Yes, I need to upgrade, there is no question, but I won’t do that without a maildir backup. I would

Re: Assistance with doveadm backup...

Okay then. Is there a document on how to do that in place? That was one of the reasons I was trying to do a backup first. Jeff > On Mar 10, 2019, at 4:12 AM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot > wrote: > > You should upgrade 2.2 first. > > Aki >> On 10 March 2019 10:45 SH

Re: Assistance with doveadm backup...

You should upgrade 2.2 first. Aki On 10 March 2019 10:45 SH Development via dovecot wrote: V 2.0.9 Jeff On Mar 10, 2019, at 12:07 AM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot <

Re: Assistance with doveadm backup...

V 2.0.9 Jeff > On Mar 10, 2019, at 12:07 AM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot > wrote: > > What version are you using? > > Aki >> On 10 March 2019 00:40 SH Development via dovecot < dovecot@dovecot.org >> > wrote: >> >> >> Okay, apparently I’m

Re: Assistance with doveadm backup...

What version are you using? Aki On 10 March 2019 00:40 SH Development via dovecot < dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote: Okay, apparently I’m just a complete idiot. Why doesn’t this work? doveadm

Re: Assistance with doveadm backup...

Okay, apparently I’m just a complete idiot. Why doesn’t this work? doveadm -Dv backup -u user Maildir:/mnt/maelstrombackups/vmailbackup With user being the actual user name. No backup is created, it just shows me the usage text. Jeff > On Feb 20, 2019, at 10:11 PM, SH Development > wrote:

Re: Assistance with doveadm backup...

On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 07:11, SH Development via dovecot < dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote: > I am having trouble locating examples of how to use doveadm backup. All > the examples I see are for sync. I simply want to create a backup to a > network volume of the email server's vmail folders. The

Re: Assistance with doveadm backup...

On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, SH Development wrote: To: Joan Moreau via dovecot Jean did take over the list for a while when developing his FTS backend, so you can be forgiven that he actually runs this list. 2. It was also suggested to rsync the directory, but the question was brought up, and not

Re: Assistance with doveadm backup...

Here is my command: [root@mail maelstrombackups] #mkdir -p vmailbackup [root@mail vmail]# chown: vmail:vmail /mnt/maelstrombackups/vmailbackup [root@mail vmail]# doveadm backup -u jeff maildir:/mnt/maelstrombackups/vmailbackup Only gives me the usage list, doesn’t work. Jeff > On Feb 21,

Re: Assistance with doveadm backup...

> On 21 Feb 2019, at 7.04, SH Development via dovecot > 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,

Re: Assistance with doveadm backup...

Sorry for being such a newbie when it comes to scripting. Created a directory for the backups on the network mounted volume. Changed the appropriate path and am getting this: dsync(root): Error: user nfsnobody: Initialization failed: Namespace 'INBOX.':

Re: Assistance with doveadm backup...

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

Re: Assistance with doveadm backup...

On Feb 20, 2019, at 21:11, SH Development via dovecot wrote: > Can someone help get me started here? Does this help? https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/489331/what-is-the-correct-way-to-use-doveadm-to-backup-emails -- This is my signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

Assistance with doveadm backup...

I am having trouble locating examples of how to use doveadm backup. All the examples I see are for sync. I simply want to create a backup to a network volume of the email server's vmail folders. The goal here is to have a reasonably current backup should the main drive on the email server go