So trying to debug replication via getting manual "doveadmin sync"
hasn't gotten me there,
Any suggests on how to debug the replication approach? Would it be
helpful to post the "/etc/dovecot/conf.d/backup.conf.ext" I created?
Thanks,
-kb
On 1/23/25 10:50 AM, Kent Borg wrote:
I have a ver
On 1/23/25 2:44 PM, Doug via dovecot wrote:
I don't have a working example because I do my dsync backups on the local
machine with output to shared NFS storage that is accessible to both my primary
and backup systems. No ssh required or remote connection required. That is
provided by NFS.
A
thing similar.
for user in ${USERS}; do
dsync -u ${user} backup maildir:/home/${user}/backup/mailboxes
done
> -Original Message-
> From: Kent Borg
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2025 5:22 PM
> To: cdm...@yahoo.com; dovecot@dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: newbie dsync pr
On 1/23/25 1:41 PM, cdm...@yahoo.com wrote:
In your working example you are connecting as root but in your dsync example your user is
remoteprefix:root. Try removing the "remoteprefix:" which is being treated as
part of the user name.
If I take off the "remoteprefix" it logs in, but it does
nuary 23, 2025 3:34 PM
> To: cdm...@yahoo.com; 'Kent Borg' ;
> dovecot@dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: newbie dsync problems
>
> On 1/23/25 12:26 PM, cdm...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > Kent,
> >
> > You are being prompted for a password, so it isn't using private
On 1/23/25 12:26 PM, cdm...@yahoo.com wrote:
Kent,
You are being prompted for a password, so it isn't using private key
authentication. I recommend you get ssh working first, prove you are indeed
connecting to your secondary server, and only then introduce doveadm.
Yes, I checked that:
I t
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> From: Kent Borg via dovecot
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2025 2:12 PM
> To: dovecot@dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: newbie dsync problems
>
> I had a typo (I said I'm a newbie).
>
> On 1/23/25 10:50 AM, Kent Borg via dovecot wrote:
> > But when I try to mak
I had a typo (I said I'm a newbie).
On 1/23/25 10:50 AM, Kent Borg via dovecot wrote:
But when I try to make the command more complete and send a username
to the remote end, and now I am no longer talking to the remote end:
root@la:/etc/dovecot# doveadm sync -u kentborg -1 ssh -i
/root/.ssh/
I have a very basic postfix/dovecot server, with just a few users, and
it works. But in the past I have had hardware failures…so I would like
use dsync to a nearly matching server for some extra safety, and I have
not yet been successful.
I am trying to do this as root over ssh, with a private
