Hi again! "du" was misleading me. Most files take 10M in filesystem but are actually only some byte or kilobytes in size. This is the result:
# du -h --apparent-size 2,1G . # du -h 25G . So my conclusion the backup misses some messages was wrong. Sorry for the noise Lars Mon, 4 May 2015 13:16:33 +0200 Lars Täuber <taeu...@bbaw.de> ==> dovecot@dovecot.org : > Hi there! > > It seems that > # doveadm backup -v backup -fu $MUSER mdbox:"$BKPDIR/$MUSER/mdbox" > doesn't backup all messages stored in alternate storage. > > mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox:ALT=/srv/mail/slow/vmail/%n/mdbox > > I don't know how to debug this. > The sizes of the mailboxes in the filesystems of user C are strange: > > ~/mdbox: > # du -sm > 2169 > > ALT: > # du -sm > 25252 > > backup: > # du -sm > 2658 > > This is with dovecot 2.2.9 on Ubuntu x86_64 14.04.2 LTS. > Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? > > How can I test if messages stored in the alternate storage are successfully > backed up? > > Thanks > Lars
