[Dovecot] Script: Moving Maildirs between servers
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Thu Feb 5 01:13:12 EET 2009
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 00:05 +0100, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
> > I can imagine that one could end up in the backup copy with an
> > incomplete/corrupt file (but this will be fixed in the next rsync,
> > hopefully), but I don't see how rsync could corrupt the original files
> > in the mail server.
>
> I'd say that even an incomplete file is very unlikely, for message
> files at least,
For Maildir message files incomplete messages aren't just unlikely,
they're never possible.
> while it might happen for files that are updated
> (uidlists etc).
True.
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