syncing mailboxes with dsync after switchover
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Wed Mar 16 05:37:25 UTC 2016
> On 16 Mar 2016, at 02:04, Sergey Schwartz <sergey.schwartz at bgoperator.com> wrote:
>
> Gentlemen,
>
> I guess my mistake was to use *-R* option, that works similar to *-1* and your messages can get lost.
>
> -R Do a reverse sync. Normally, messages would be pushed from the local system to the destination (remote). This option reverses the flow, and will
> instead pull messages from the remote to the local storage.
>
> doesn't say clearly that it works like a backup mode and data can be lost
Oh, that really shouldn't have been even allowed. Fixed:
https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/7a3b52b8f9c6261ea912d9c96b20d815f782be5b
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