Dovecot Replication - Architecture Endianness?

[Reuben Farrelly]

On 7/05/2015 7:47 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 04 May 2015, at 17:11, Reuben Farrelly <reuben-dovecot at reub.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 4/05/2015 11:06 PM, Teemu Huovila wrote:
>> Even if this doesn't end up working I figure I'll get to learn a
>> little more about the indexes themselves in the process.
>
> dsyncing between servers (or in general using dsync-server) transfers
> all data using a portable protocol. So dsync source and destination
> can then have different endianess and it doesn't matter.

I've tested this out today and can confirm it all works well - starting 
from nothing and doing the entire sync using dovecot.  The takeaway from 
this is that for cross-arch replication an initial rsync is -not- the 
right thing to do in this situation.

Thanks!

Reuben