[Dovecot] Script: Moving Maildirs between servers

[Jose Celestino]

Words by Charles Marcus [Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:08:46AM -0500]:
> On 2/2/2009 7:30 PM, Jose Celestino wrote:
> >>> I just migrated from dovecot 1.0.rc29 to 1.1.7, from Sparc platform to
> >>> Intel, it went very well.
> 
> >> rsync would be simpler.
> 
> > Indeed. We always do a
> > 
> > rsync now
> > rsync then
> > rsync just another time
> > stop everything, rsync final, start everything
> > 
> > with great success :)
> 
> So you're rsyncing a live mail system with no problems?
> 
> I've been tempted to start doing this, but I was under the impression it
> could be risky (cause file corruption)?
> 

I'm rsyncing a live mail system so that I have a smaller downtime when
doing the final rsync (that is always done with the system down, of
course).

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