On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 09:24 +0200, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
Why is it a problem that dsync takes a long time, when it can be done without downtime for the users?
I just started our maildir->mdbox convertion yesterday, using the attached script. I only converted a little over 10000 easy accounts (accounts with simple folder names, as I expect to run into problems once we start hitting accounts with trailing dot or broken latin1/utf8 characters in the folder names). I might agree it wasn't quick, but that really doesn't matter as the only downtime for the user is that he's potentially kicked out during the userdb update.
I looked over your script. I plan on doing some trial runs with it. Ithink the trick where you re-run the sync and then boot the user off the connection should work pretty well. I hadn't totally fleshed out the scripting on the conversion since there is a lot more I need to do with the database and configuration files first. It appears I can use your script as a starting point for our configuration.
...Jeff-jf
We're hoping that converting away from Maildir will help us speed upthe backup processes by reducing the number of files to process.