Brad Bateman wrote:

Colons are a reserved

Um, sure, a colon is not a period, sorry.

character in the DOS world. Yes....I thought about encapsulating (gzip) but was looking for a more elegant solution.

Maildir standard uses colons as a separator so I'm afraid that archive is the only way to go. I'm not sure if gzip is the best format as it compresses data and doesn't support storing multiple files in a big one. I'd suggest tar.

Cheers, -jkt

-- cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth

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.