[Dovecot] OT: best way to move maildirs to another host ?
Brice Figureau
brice+dovecot at daysofwonder.com
Fri Aug 18 12:46:54 EEST 2006
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 11:17 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:00:42AM +0100, Andrew Richards wrote:
> > On Friday 18 August 2006 09:27, Brice Figureau wrote:
> > > ...
> > > Next, from what I remember about maildir, the message names usually
> > > contain the inode so that the file name is unique. If I strictly
> > > move the files, I can be sure that the moved files won't have the
> > > same inodes number as what is in the name.
> > > Should I care ?
> > > ...
> >
> > No.
> > [snipped]
> > When you move your messages, the timestamp will be
> > 'in the past' for the new server, so even if you were to duplicate an
> > inode number, the timestamp would still ensure uniqueness.
>
> And the hostname would be different. :-)
In fact no, since the new server will replace the old one, they do have
the same hostname. But since the timestamps ensure uniqueness, I'm
fine ;-)
Thank you for your answers,
--
Brice Figureau <brice+dovecot at daysofwonder.com>
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