On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 13:10 -0700, Brad Bateman wrote:
The problem is not the directory, but rather the file name: 1145574924.P25062Q0M483195.bigoak.quickdispense.com:2,S There is a colon between the com and the 2. Colons are a reserved character in the DOS world. Yes....I thought about encapsulating (gzip) but was looking for a more elegant solution.
Run the backup script on the machine with Dovecot, and have it change the : to some other character. Make sure to test a restore script that changes the : back. To be safe, consider what happens if the character you choose as the replacement already occurs in the filename.
I think perhaps rsync or rdiff-backup have the ability to do this automatically.
Richard
P.S. HTML e-mail is ugly. HTML e-mail without a plain text part, especially when sent to a mailing list, is unacceptable. Fix your mail client.