[Dovecot] backup using rsync

[tomas at tuxteam.de]

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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 04:15:02PM +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote:
> tomas at tuxteam.de schrieb:
> > On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:41:40PM +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> >> i ll do backups with rsync on maildirs with courier
> >> ( which has also : in filenames )
> > 
> > Stupid question: with CIFS as target filesystem?
> 
> no never, why should i do this, nfs , ssh etc should be faster and more
> secure etc

Nor would I, for that. But I can afford the luxury to see CIFS once a
couple of years :)

> > Because there are some chars which are AFAIK taboo on Windows file
> > systems (colon being one, AFAIR -- luckily my memory on that is hazy :)
> 
> jo as i said cifs may not like some stuff, but i see no reason what
> force using cifs, after all you can rsync the maildir dir to another dir
> on the source server,
> tar it afterwards and copy it over cifs, as workaround
> this should work ever, and easy scriptable

Of course you lose the network bandwith savings rsync offers to you,
then :-(

OTOH, it might make sense experimenting with rsyncing the tar (if it
doesn't change much), or, when gzipping it, using the --rsyncable
option. Maybe not all is lost.

Regards
- -- tomás
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