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I have been thinking, and reading, on how to back up my mailserver. I have not found any approach that seems ready to use. I have run years without any backup, but would really like to have something in place.? I figure I can attach a USB drive and backup to that, then from there rsync to something elsewhere.? Further if that USB drive is a full mailserver image, I actually have a 'hot

...some effort on your own, to search, read, evaluate and finally choose what's fitting into YOUR setup! But as an starting point: I'm using a for _MY setup_ modified and adopted version of Klaus Tachtler's dovecot-backup script: https://github.com/tachtler/dovecot-backup/blob/master/dovecot_backup.sh ... mixed it with Borg Backup: https://www.borgbackup.org/ ... some further encryption, cloud storage and ... and ... and other stuff. But as above mentioned: YOU have to think about the grade of your paranoia level, how importand the data is to you in case of an data loss, time and money...

Hi, I want to do a simple backup of my maildir. I read here that maildirlock is not to count on in the future and the recommended option was to use doveadm backup. However, it seems that this requires to setup another dovecot server. My questions are: - How much to I need to configure this new server? Do I need to setup user by user, or even install postfix (that's where my users are

...ckups > > https://github.com/tachtler/dovecot-backup A couple of notes on this quite useful script: My mktemp does not support -p (FreeBSD 12.1) is I had to change the script to: DIR_TEMP=$($MKTEMP_COMMAND -d $TMP_FOLDER -t $SCRIPT_NAME) Which gives a temp folder along the lines of /tmp/dovecot_backup.IiZ00GyZ I also changed the various date strings to date -Iseconds and date -R for the mail handling since the format in the script is not to spec, using Fri, 29 May 2020 23:49:31 (-0600) Instead of the -R, --rfc-email output date and time in RFC 5322 format. Example: Mon, 14...

...g was hitting the spot.? But, I will blame my dyslexia that my search foo is weak. > > But as an starting point: > I'm using a for _MY setup_ modified and adopted version of Klaus > Tachtler's dovecot-backup script: > https://github.com/tachtler/dovecot-backup/blob/master/dovecot_backup.sh > > ... mixed it with Borg Backup: > https://www.borgbackup.org/ > > ... some further encryption, cloud storage and ... and ... and other > stuff. I will check both of these. > > > But as above mentioned: > YOU have to think about the grade of your paranoia leve...