Your question I’m running the latest version of stalwart with RocksDB as a backend storage engine. The documentation says for backup it is enough to back up the directory. However I think the server should be stopped for that to work without problems. I found an old thread about 2 years ago where i…

There are two distinct aspects to backup in Stalwart, and the docs cover both: 1. Configuration/settings backup (live, no downtime needed) The stalwart-cli snapshot command walks the live server and exports all configuration objects (accounts, domains, settings, roles, etc.) to an NDJSON file with…

[image] ComSubVie: What’s the best way to backup the stalwart server without shutting it down? Snapshot for server configuration, Vandelay for account backups.

Thanks. Server configuration backup The snapshot seems to have some problems: unexpected server response: no schema available for x:DnsServer When I remove it from the snapshot I get the error: Domain references DnsServer but DnsServer is not in the snapshot selection; (I can add it to --al…

I’d post that snapshot up as a separate issue and see if the bot finds a problem in the code. Yes Vandelay is account by account since it’s not a Stalwart specific tool, but it shouldn’t be too difficult to use the stalwart-cli to get a list of accounts and a wrapper-of-choice to run through export…

Created a follow-up issue regarding the snapshot problem: Stalwart-cli snapshot not working as expected .

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Snapshot for server configuration, Vandelay for account backups.

Stalwart-cli snapshot not working as expected

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