On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Stephane Magnier wrote:
I've just tried
doveadm backup /var/spool2/mail/user1 /home/backup/
doveadm(user1): *Error: Index is read-only*, can't write-lock
/var/spool2/mail/user1/dovecot.list.index.log
doveadm(user1): Fatal: execvp(/var/spool2/mail/user1) failed: Permission
Hi,
I've just tried
doveadm backup /var/spool2/mail/user1 /home/backup/
doveadm(user1): *Error: Index is read-only*, can't write-lock
/var/spool2/mail/user1/dovecot.list.index.log
doveadm(user1): Fatal: execvp(/var/spool2/mail/user1) failed: Permission
denied
dsync-local(user1): Error: read(r
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022, Stephane Magnier wrote:
OK , so I can see that there is this doveadm backup..
I don't use any MailDir on each account.. but all the emails are stored into
the folder /var/www/mail ( user 1 , user2, etc... )
in that case, a very basic backup would be : *doveadm backup /
I've had some success with restic to create incremental backups of mail
directories on external storage. Very space efficient, and restic will handle
all the de-duplication, pruning etc.
You could write a filter to exclude the dovecot index files, or just restore to
a different directory befor
Hi Benny,
Well, it's that, the chicken and the egg history!
Not everything's possible, but end users think we do magic.
Thanks for the help,
On 2022-02-11 16:36, Benny Pedersen wrote:
On 2022-02-11 12:33, Jorge Bastos wrote:
Howdy,
I have a particular situation where I have about 5 users u
OK , so I can see that there is this doveadm backup..
I don't use any MailDir on each account.. but all the emails are stored
into the folder /var/www/mail ( user 1 , user2, etc... )
in that case, a very basic backup would be : *doveadm backup
/var/www/mail /var/backup/folder* ?
( I pre
Why not doing an rsync of the folders ? Will it damage the index file ?
On 2/11/22 12:33, Jorge Bastos wrote:
Howdy,
I have a particular situation where I have about 5 users using a large
account in IMAP, and I have the need to backup the account daily or
weekly or so.
I was thinking about t
On 2022-02-11 12:33, Jorge Bastos wrote:
Howdy,
I have a particular situation where I have about 5 users using a large
account in IMAP, and I have the need to backup the account daily or
weekly or so.
I was thinking about to copy the whole directory, each email is a
file, it could probably work,
