On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:38:31 +0300 (EEST) Aki Tuomi <aki.tu...@dovecot.fi> wrote:
[...] > > > > Alternatively you can use `dsync` to perform backup with a > > > > native Dovecot tool. It's able to sync mailboxes of any > > > > Dovecot user -- including synchronizing a mailbox to an empty > > > > (yet) spool. You'll need to do a bit of shell scripting which > > > > would spin around calling `doveadm user *` and feeding its > > > > output to something like > > > > > > > > while read user; do \ > > > > dest="/var/backup/dovecot/$user"; > > > > mkdir -p "$dest" && chown vmail:vmail "$dest" \ > > > > && chmod 0755 "$dest" > > > > dsync -u "$user" backup "maildir:$dest" \ > > > > done > > > > > > > > Note that you will only need this if you don't want to shut down > > > > Dovecot to copy its mail spool out. > > > > > > You can also use doveadm backup -A maildir:%u/ > > > > Looks like `doveadm` of my Dovecot 2.2 (Debian 8.0 Jessie) does not > > support the "backup" subcommand. Is it a past-2.2 addition? > > We aren't past 2.2 yet. But it should work with dsync -A backup as > well I guess. Oh, that's a documentation problem: the manual page doveadm(1) does not mention the word "backup" at all while running the command actually tells it's supported: $ doveadm backup -A doveadm backup [-u <user>|-A] [-S <socket_path>] [-dfR] [-l <secs>] [-r <rawlog path>] [-m <mailbox>] [-n <namespace> | -N] [-x <exclude>] [-s <state>] <dest> Good to know, thanks!
