Re: [Dovecot] Not backing up cache files

2014-05-02 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 26.3.2014, at 10.05, Jesus Cea wrote: > I am using mdbox for dovecot storage. > > I wonder if I could skip "dovecot.index.cache" files and, in general, > "*.cache" files when doing mail backup. Those files are big and change > frequently. What I feel from reading documentation [1][2] is that

Re: [Dovecot] Not backing up cache files

2014-03-28 Thread Jesus Cea
On 26/03/14 09:05, Jesus Cea wrote: > I am using mdbox for dovecot storage. > > I wonder if I could skip "dovecot.index.cache" files and, in general, > "*.cache" files when doing mail backup. Those files are big and change > frequently. What I feel from reading documentation [1][2] is that they >

Re: [Dovecot] Not backing up cache files

2014-03-26 Thread Charles Marcus
On 3/26/2014 2:16 PM, Gedalya wrote: On 03/26/2014 04:05 AM, Jesus Cea wrote: What I feel from reading documentation [1][2] is that they could be dropped in the backups, to be recreated on the fly if needed. If you are using maildir, then yes, that's my understanding too, those files don't con

Re: [Dovecot] Not backing up cache files

2014-03-26 Thread Gedalya
On 03/26/2014 04:05 AM, Jesus Cea wrote: What I feel from reading documentation [1][2] is that they could be dropped in the backups, to be recreated on the fly if needed. If you are using maildir, then yes, that's my understanding too, those files don't contain data that doesn't exist anywhere e

Re: [Dovecot] Not backing up cache files

2014-03-26 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
i'm not the expert you're looking for, so dont take my word as one. And i'm basically using Maildir instead of mdbox ... Anyway, i have dropped 'dovecot.index*' from some backups, full and incremental ones, action which made me save some Gbs of space on them. I already restored some

[Dovecot] Not backing up cache files

2014-03-26 Thread Jesus Cea
I am using mdbox for dovecot storage. I wonder if I could skip "dovecot.index.cache" files and, in general, "*.cache" files when doing mail backup. Those files are big and change frequently. What I feel from reading documentation [1][2] is that they could be dropped in the backups, to be recreated