dovecot - Oct 2010 - Backup recovery with mdbox

Hello

I'm using mdbox for mail storage. I'd like to give users an option to
recover backups into a new folder, say, Backup-$date.

Is there a simple way to do this? I was looking at tools like dsync and
doveadm-altmove but apparently they're not intended for this kind of
stuff.

Thanks in advance,
Andre

On 5.10.2010, at 13.56, Andre Nathan wrote:
> I'm using mdbox for mail storage. I'd like to give users an option
to
> recover backups into a new folder, say, Backup-$date.
> 
> Is there a simple way to do this? I was looking at tools like dsync and
> doveadm-altmove but apparently they're not intended for this kind of
> stuff.
dsync could work, although with some small kludging:

1. Put the old backup to e.g. ~/backup

2. Rename the mailbox to whatever you want in destination, e.g. mv
~/backup/mailboxes/foo ~/backup/mailboxes/foo-$date

3. Copy the mailbox: dsync -m foo-$date mirror mdbox:~/backup

On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 09:56 -0300, Andre Nathan wrote:
> I'm using mdbox for mail storage. I'd like to give users an option
to
> recover backups into a new folder, say, Backup-$date.
Added to hg:

       This example imports all mails from a backup  under  a  backup-20101026
       mailbox:

       doveadm import -u jane.doe at example.org \
       mdbox:/backup/20101026/jane.doe/mdbox backup-20101026 all

       Another  example that imports only messages from foo at example.org in
the
       backup mdbox's INBOX to jane's INBOX:

       doveadm import -u jane.doe at example.org \
       mdbox:~/mdbox-backup  mailbox INBOX from foo at example.org