Re: doveadm backup only working once?

2021-01-06 Thread Aki Tuomi
No, I'm suggesting you use any other mail format than mbox, like maildir, sdbox or mdbox. sdbox or maildir is pretty safe bet. Aki > On 06/01/2021 16:53 Engelbert Torremans wrote: > > > OK. So you are suggesting that moving to mdbox could solve my problem? > > I could migrate/reconfigure

Re: doveadm backup only working once?

2021-01-06 Thread Odhiambo Washington
I experienced some corruption with mdbox that I had to move away from it to Maildir. Anyway, that's just me, On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 17:54, Engelbert Torremans wrote: > OK. So you are suggesting that moving to mdbox could solve my problem? > > I could migrate/reconfigure my "server2" to mdbox

Re: doveadm backup only working once?

2021-01-06 Thread Engelbert Torremans
OK. So you are suggesting that moving to mdbox could solve my problem? I could migrate/reconfigure my "server2" to mdbox while keeping my "production/server1" running on mbox and backup everything from server1->server2 and switch over once everything proves to be working OK. Engelbert Op

Re: doveadm backup only working once?

2021-01-06 Thread Aki Tuomi
Hi! dsync has limited support to work with mbox format, which is mainly to get away from it. Aki > On 06/01/2021 16:37 Christian Kivalo wrote: > > > On January 6, 2021 2:14:32 PM GMT+01:00, Engelbert Torremans > wrote: > >All, > > > >Maybe a relevant piece of additional information that

Re: doveadm backup only working once?

2021-01-06 Thread Christian Kivalo
On January 6, 2021 2:14:32 PM GMT+01:00, Engelbert Torremans wrote: >All, > >Maybe a relevant piece of additional information that could help in >figurring out what is going wrong here that I forgot to add in my >previous posting. > >After the succesfull first backup execution using:

Re: doveadm backup only working once?

2021-01-06 Thread Engelbert Torremans
All, Maybe a relevant piece of additional information that could help in figurring out what is going wrong here that I forgot to add in my previous posting. After the succesfull first backup execution using: #doveadm -D -v backup -R -f -u synctest tcp:192.168.3.1:12345 as described in

doveadm backup only working once?

2021-01-04 Thread Engelbert Torremans
All, For the past 2 weeks I have been trying to get dovecot mail backup working between 2 debian 10 machines. Both machines are running the same OS (Debian 10) and configuration wise they are similar (except of course ip addresses, hostnames etc). My "main" machine is called "server" and