sdbox filesystem backup potential excludes

Aki Tuomi
Tue, 14 Aug 2018 07:55:27 -0000

On 13.08.2018 19:51, Daniel Miller wrote:
> When doing a filesystem backup of an moderate sdbox mailstore (300GB)
> - are there any files that can be safely excluded from the backup??
> Like *.log or *.backup?? Or are they all "vital" for recovery?
>
> I'm already excluding the sdbox/virtual folders as it looks like they
> get created and updated as needed.
>

Hi, can you provide 'doveconf -n'. sdbox/virtual folders are not part of
sdbox mail format. In general, if you want to avoid data loss, you can
only omit dovecot.index.cache files, but omitting these can come with
high impact when they are regenerated. Omitting dovecot.index.log or
dovecot.index will cause loss of flags.

Aki