[Dovecot] backup using rsync

[Ed W]

tomas at tuxteam.de wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 04:15:02PM +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote:
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>> tomas at tuxteam.de schrieb:
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>>> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:41:40PM +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote:
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>>>> i ll do backups with rsync on maildirs with courier
>>>> ( which has also : in filenames )
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>>> Stupid question: with CIFS as target filesystem?
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>> no never, why should i do this, nfs , ssh etc should be faster and more
>> secure etc
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> Nor would I, for that. But I can afford the luxury to see CIFS once a
> couple of years :)
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My experience is that cifs is *faster* than nfs... Also, I personally 
find it simpler to administrate than NFS.  Probably this is due to 
ignorance of how to setup NFS to do user based ID mappings, etc, but 
there you go...

(Much as it pains me to like an MS derived product, I have to stick up 
for it here... I think you will find a bunch of benchmarks in favour of 
either solution if you search the net, but the point being that at least 
some benchmarks also put cifs ahead of nfs in terms of performance...)

The end result is still in favour or rsync+ssh though...  Do have a look 
at snapback2 for a fairly simple backup solution which works very nicely 
for me

Ed W