Re: Backing up and restoring maildir folders

2017-05-22 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
Backing up maildir is easy, just backup (and restore) the whole thing and, usually, that's as simple as that. However, for saving some backup space if that's a matter, i would exclude only the 'dovecot.index.cache*' files, as these can be rebuilt (some performance hit after the resto

Backing up and restoring maildir folders

2017-05-22 Thread Timothy D Legg
Hello, I am migrating to a different distribution of Linux that involves changing to an earlier version of dovecot (2.2.22 to 2.2.13). As part of this process, I will be copying several maildirs to the new machine. One of these has a number of files and directories that resemble this one exampl