My apologies, you are absolutely right. Will post this in the correct forum.
Spent the last couple of hours poring through the postfix list and just forgot
where I was at.
Jeff
> On Feb 20, 2019, at 8:55 PM, Kenren Taisho <toushin.tai...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> This should be better off to dovecot's mailing list.
> But just to get you started, this is the first thing that came to mind:
>
> example:
>
> for users in `doveadm user "*"`; do
> LOCALPART=${users%%@*}
> dsync -v -f -u $users backup maildir:/tmp/backup/$LOCALPART
> echo "Backup done for user: $users ..."
> done
>
> HTH
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 9:55 AM SH Development <listacco...@starionline.com
> <mailto:listacco...@starionline.com>> 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 goal here is to have a
> reasonably current backup should the main drive on the email server go south.
>
> We currently authenticate our users from a mysql database. User’s mailboxes
> are stored as domainname/username/Maildir
>
> I assume what I will wind up on the network volume is a duplicate directory
> structure as the vmail folder on the email server?
>
> Can someone help get me started here?
>
> Jeff
