ImapSync to ignore Shared Folders

[rojanu]

Hi,

I am trying to setup imapsync to backup the mailboxes but would like to ignore shared folders. Is it possible to do that. On the UI preferences->Sharing has a list of shared folders that the account is using, is it possible to get this through CLI so I can integrate it with imapsync?

Thanks,
Rojanu

[GillesLAMIRAL]

Hi,

Use --exclude option

  imapsync ... --exclude ShareFolder1 --exclude ShareFolder2

or even

  imapsync ... --exclude 'TopShareFolder.*'

[rojanu]

The problem with that approach is that we have about 150 users and We really have no idea what folders user share. Therefore, I need to script to exclude folders and need a way of figuring if a folder is a shared from another user.

Thanks for the reply

[federico.bertola]

While I support Imapsync as it is a great piece of software software for migrating data from and to nonzimbra servers, I think it's definately not what you should try to use in order to backup your mailboxes. You'll be able to recover single items about easily, but in case of a disaster you'll have a lot work to do to manually set your user and share informations back.
I personally use ZeXtras Backup to backup my OSE servers, but there are many different options at Open Source Edition Backup Procedure - Zimbra :: Wiki