dovecot - Feb 2022 - Backup procedures

OK , so I can see that there is this doveadm backup..

I don't use any MailDir on each account.. but all the emails are stored 
into the folder /var/www/mail? ( user 1 , user2, etc... )

in that case, a very basic backup would be? : *doveadm backup 
/var/www/mail? /var/backup/folder*? ?

( I prefer to ask before trying, because If break something.. here, they 
will kill me? :-( )


On 2/11/22 17:55, Stephane Magnier wrote:
> Why not doing an rsync of the folders ? Will it damage the index file ?
>
> On 2/11/22 12:33, Jorge Bastos wrote:
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I have a particular situation where I have about 5 users using a 
>> large account in IMAP, and I have the need to backup the account 
>> daily or weekly or so.
>> I was thinking about to copy the whole directory, each email is a 
>> file, it could probably work, but the dovecot index files would be 
>> damaged/wrong.
>>
>> Is there a tool that could perform a backup (ex: yesterday), and when 
>> I inserted that backup, it just insert the emails and folders that 
>> were deleted today?
>>
>> Thanks in advanced,
>> Jorge
>>
>
>
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2022, Stephane Magnier wrote:
> OK , so I can see that there is this doveadm backup..
>
> I don't use any MailDir on each account.. but all the emails are stored
into
> the folder /var/www/mail? ( user 1 , user2, etc... )
>
> in that case, a very basic backup would be? : *doveadm backup
/var/www/mail?
> /var/backup/folder*? ?
I use doveadm backup like that and then rsync the backup (not the
"live"
mailboxes) to another place.
> ( I prefer to ask before trying, because If break something.. here, they
will
> kill me? :-( )
It's understandable :)

Cheers,
Bernardo