On 2022-10-10 14:57, Ian Evans wrote:
I run a small email server for me and the missus. Six dovecot users.
Our host is migrating our server instance. They usually (99.9999% lol)
go off without a hitch.
As we don't have dovecot running elsewhere, I'm assuming doveadm is
the wrong tool.
If we want to make a one-off backup prior to the migration, is
shutting down postfix and running
tar czf mailstorage.tgz /path/to/mail okay?
Thanks.
I would say it should be ok as long as its going to be the same setup,
but if you are expecting to upgrade dovecot or any other related
package, I would then recommend to perform upgrades before migrating and
taking the backup, so to guarantee everything is going to be working.
