[Dovecot] backup using rsync

[David Favor]

Yes. Be sure to check your rsync version.

As I recall the 2.x series has bugs related to this.

I had a similar problem on MacOS until I upgraded to 3.0.6 and all
is well with ':' on MacOS & Ubuntu at this level.

Robert Schetterer wrote:
> Ed W schrieb:
>> Scott Murman wrote:
>>> i'm trying to backup the dovecot Maildir files over a cifs share.  
>>> source is a debian build, share is a readynas.   i've been getting
>>> rsync: mkstemp 'filename goes here' failed: Not a directory (20)
>>> errors.   rsync is v3.0.   i believe this is related to the dovecot
>>> file naming convention that includes characters such as ':' in the
>>> filename.   anyone else seeing similar behavior?  a workaround?   i
>>> can go to different backup strategies, but rsync is cheap and
>>> effective for my needs.  thanks,
>>>
>> Is backup over ssh an option?
>>
>> Alternatively could you run an rsync server at one end or the other
>> (which then also avoids using cifs in the middle)?
>>
>> Ed W
> 
> i ll do backups with rsync on maildirs with courier
> ( which has also : in filenames )
> without any problems, as well i backup whole machines
> including sockets etc without any problems
> so the problem cant be dovecot here
> check your rsync version and script i would guess, maybe cifs has
> problems ..., use ssh ,ftp, nfs etc instead, or backup rsync in a local
> dir first then tar it followed by copy over cifs just one tar file
> 


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