[Dovecot] Backing Up

[Scott Silva]

on 10-29-2008 12:25 PM Neil spake the following:
> What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a
> user's mail?
> 
> I don't think I'm doing anything weird as far as configs go; here's
> dovecot -n if it helps:
> 
> # 1.1.4: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> protocols: imaps
> listen: *, [::]
> ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/cert.pem
> ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/key.pem
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> mail_location: maildir:~/.maildir
> auth default:
>   mechanisms: plain login
>   passdb:
>     driver: pam
>     args: *
>   userdb:
>     driver: passwd
>   socket:
>     type: listen
>     client:
>       path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
>       mode: 432
>       user: postfix
>       group: postfix
> 
> 
I usually just rsync the /home directories to another server. The inital sync
can take a while, but it gets faster after there is a base to work from.

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