On 13.2.2012, at 9.49, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 05:58:20PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> >> doveadm backup -u user@domain backup: >> >> And it would output the user's messages to stdout (or to some file). So it >> would be similar to e.g. PostgreSQL's pg_dump. > > So only full backups, no incremental backups?
I know people are doing incremental backups with PostgreSQL, so it should be possible with Dovecot too. I'm not sure about the details yet tough. > Then what's the benefit over just copying the files (of a snapshot)? If SIS is enabled, it's a little difficult to restore specific user's mails from a filesystem based backup.
