On 10/18/2022 7:46 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
On Tue, 2022-10-18 at 16:48 +0200, Bernardo Reino wrote:
On 18/10/2022 12:17, Michael wrote:
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> [...]
so, raid is mandatory, which is already the case, but what about backup?
how can i achieve a backup/snapshot of both, the mdbox (nfs share) and
th
On 10/19/22 07:46, Steve Litt wrote:
>> for MAILBOX in $USERS; do
>> doveadm expunge -u "$MAILBOX" mailbox Trash savedbefore 7d
>> doveadm expunge -u "$MAILBOX" mailbox Spam savedbefore 30d
>> doveadm purge -u "$MAILBOX"
>>
>> LOCATION2="mdbox:/srv/snap_mail/$MA
On Tue, 2022-10-18 at 16:48 +0200, Bernardo Reino wrote:
> On 18/10/2022 12:17, Michael wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > so, raid is mandatory, which is already the case, but what about backup?
> > how can i achieve a backup/snapshot of both, the mdbox (nfs share) and
> > the index files (local raid) a
On 18/10/2022 12:17, Michael wrote:
>
> [...]
so, raid is mandatory, which is already the case, but what about backup?
how can i achieve a backup/snapshot of both, the mdbox (nfs share) and
the index files (local raid) and assure they are consistent?
You can use doveadm to backup the mailboxes
> On 18/10/2022 14:09 EEST Marc wrote:
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>
> >
> > "Note that with dbox the Index files contain significant data which is
> > held nowhere else. Index files for both sdbox and mdbox contain message
> > flags and keywords. For mdbox, the index file also contains the map_uids
> > which link (v
>
> "Note that with dbox the Index files contain significant data which is
> held nowhere else. Index files for both sdbox and mdbox contain message
> flags and keywords. For mdbox, the index file also contains the map_uids
> which link (via the “map index”) to the actual message data. This data
>
On 10/18/22 18:46, Marc wrote:
>> you must not lose the dbox index files, as they can’t be
>> regenerated without data loss.
> I have read this also, and was also worried about this, but when I look at
> the flat m.988 file, I still have quite a lot of useful data there.
"Note that with dbox
On 10/18/22 18:17, Michael wrote:
> what about backup? how can i achieve a backup/snapshot of both, the mdbox
> (nfs share) and the index files (local raid) and assure they are consistent?
If you do your backups using doveadm backup, then the result should be
consistent, at least in the sense t
>
> i am considering changing my mailbox format from maildir to mdbox. the
> reason for this is mainly, b/c i have (a) multiple large mailboxes with
> tens of thousands of mail files, and (b) most of these mails files have
> a
> size significantly smaller than the sector size of the disk.
>
> so
