Hi, according to the man page doveadm-backup, the verbosity switch "-v" should do the following: "Enables verbosity, including progress counter" However, i see no difference running the following command with or without the "-v" switch: >>doveadm -v backup -R -A remote:myhost The command itself works without problem, two mailboxes are correctly back-upped, but the output is only an empty line. Not sure if this is expected behavior. Regards # 2.2.19: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.9 (357ac0a0e68b+) # OS: Linux 4.2.5-1-ARCH x86_64 dsync_remote_cmd = ssh -p 19022 -l root %{host} doveadm dsync-server -u%u first_valid_uid = 99 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate editheader passdb { args = nopassword=y driver = static } plugin { sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_extensions = +editheader } protocols service anvil { process_min_avail = 0 unix_listener anvil-auth-penalty { mode = 064 } } ssl = no userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/users default_fields = uid=nobody gid=nobody home=/backup/tmp/mail/%d/%n mail=sdbox:~/box driver = passwd-file }