I run a small email server for me and the missus. Six dovecot users. Our host is migrating our server instance. They usually (99.9999% lol) go off without a hitch. As we don't have dovecot running elsewhere, I'm assuming doveadm is the wrong tool. If we want to make a one-off backup prior to the migration, is shutting down postfix and running tar czf mailstorage.tgz /path/to/mail okay? Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20221010/98c704ad/attachment.htm>
> On 10/10/2022 17:57 EEST Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote: > > > I run a small email server for me and the missus. Six dovecot users. > > Our host is migrating our server instance. They usually (99.9999% lol) go off without a hitch. > > As we don't have dovecot running elsewhere, I'm assuming doveadm is the wrong tool. > > If we want to make a one-off backup prior to the migration, is shutting down postfix and running > tar czf mailstorage.tgz /path/to/mail okay?? > > Thanks.You can. Aki
On 2022-10-10 14:57, Ian Evans wrote:> I run a small email server for me and the missus. Six dovecot users. > > Our host is migrating our server instance. They usually (99.9999% lol) > go off without a hitch. > > As we don't have dovecot running elsewhere, I'm assuming doveadm is > the wrong tool. > > If we want to make a one-off backup prior to the migration, is > shutting down postfix and running > tar czf mailstorage.tgz /path/to/mail okay? > > Thanks.I would say it should be ok as long as its going to be the same setup, but if you are expecting to upgrade dovecot or any other related package, I would then recommend to perform upgrades before migrating and taking the backup, so to guarantee everything is going to be working.
Depending on your setup, abilities and intended results, you might also wish consider offlineimap and imapsync, with which you could maintain an updated offsite copy going forwards. P. On 10/10/22 22:57, Ian Evans wrote:> I run a small email server for me and the missus. Six dovecot users. > > Our host is migrating our server instance. They usually (99.9999% lol) go off without a hitch. > > As we don't have dovecot running elsewhere, I'm assuming doveadm is the wrong tool. > > If we want to make a one-off backup prior to the migration, is shutting down postfix and running > tar czf mailstorage.tgz /path/to/mail okay? > > Thanks.
Il 10/10/2022 16:57, Ian Evans ha scritto:> is shutting down postfix and running > tar czf mailstorage.tgz /path/to/mail okay?remember -p to preserve permissions. -- ############################### # Cristiano Deana # # # # Senior Network Engineer # # Digital Response Team # # CittaStudi S.p.a. # # off. +39 015 855 1172 # # cell +39 328 310 6392 # ###############################
Is that a divorce? Or else a little bit better spelling and respect for the lady is called for? And I don't like criminals serving bogus law papers and hacking into my mail any more than anyone else does. On October 10, 2022 6:57:39 AM AKDT, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:>I run a small email server for me and the missus. Six dovecot users. > >Our host is migrating our server instance. They usually (99.9999% lol) go >off without a hitch. > >As we don't have dovecot running elsewhere, I'm assuming doveadm is the >wrong tool. > >If we want to make a one-off backup prior to the migration, is shutting >down postfix and running >tar czf mailstorage.tgz /path/to/mail okay? > >Thanks.-- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20221011/3d522a63/attachment.htm>