Andrew Oakley wrote: > First I would like to back up everything on the IMAP server. How do I do > this please?
I personally use rsnapshot [1] to backup my /var/mail folder which is 846MB, I have been backing it up for 6 months using rsnapshot and that weighs in at 1.6GB a cost I consider worthwhile. > Then, how do I restore this to a clean install of Dovecot? Throw the directory structure back in at /var/mail and set up the configuration again. > Ideally I'd like to write a nice cron-able script that creates a .tar.gz > file, but anything that works will do. For the longer term, how can I > perform incremental Dovecot IMAP backups (say, only the last 7 days > worth of mail)? > > If it makes a difference, I am the only IMAP user on the server. > > Couldn't find anything immediately relevant with Google, but links to > RTFM-esque articles would much appreciated. Thanks, No idea for this bit. [1] http://www.rsnapshot.org/ Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
