Roundcube data left out when E-mail data unchecked for backups is a hidden gotcha

adam12

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Exactly as the title says. If you're unchecking E-mail Data for your backups, and then using rsync or another mechanism to backup email data, assume that your backups do not contain Roundcube data.

This is a super sharp edge because imap data can be enormous and often on busy servers needs to be transferred out-of-band from the DirectAdmin backup suite, but roundcube.xml is typically small enough that it should be included almost always in the tarball.
 
As an alternative to unchecking E-mail Data, you could create a file
.backup_exclude_paths in the user's home directory with the contents of imap (and maybe Maildir if you want), which would exclude it from the backups, even if E-mail Data is selected.

 
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