how to take mdbox extract of time interval and restore that again?

2023-12-27 Thread lutzn via dovecot
Hi! Due to a fatal hardware error we have to extract data of all existing imap accounts and all their boxes/folders etc. from an mdbox store starting with the 5th of december until today. Then we have to restore the old system and import the data back into it. Mail before 5th will come from t

How to backup mdbox

2025-04-30 Thread lutzn via dovecot
Hi, dovecot with mdbox on zfs running fine and robust since one year now. Zfs and mdbox seem to make sense. What we do for backup currently is stop dovecot, take a snapshot and restart dovecot. That only takes a few seconds to complete. After that we have time to do the backup. Is that the co