Backup procedures

Stephane Magnier
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 16:55:22 -0000

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
>