[Dovecot] backup using rsync

[Scott Murman]

thanks, as i noted i am using rsync v3, so the problem lies elsewhere  
(maybe the ',' character?).   i ended up starting an rsync daemon on  
the remote server and using that.  so far so good.   i can't say too  
many nice things about cifs, but it's a necessary evil here.

On Oct 9, 2009, at 7:06 AM, David Favor wrote:

> Yes. Be sure to check your rsync version.
>
> As I recall the 2.x series has bugs related to this.
>
> I had a similar problem on MacOS until I upgraded to 3.0.6 and all
> is well with ':' on MacOS & Ubuntu at this level.
>
> Robert Schetterer wrote:
>> Ed W schrieb:
>>> Scott Murman wrote:
>>>> i'm trying to backup the dovecot Maildir files over a cifs  
>>>> share.  source is a debian build, share is a readynas.   i've  
>>>> been getting
>>>> rsync: mkstemp 'filename goes here' failed: Not a directory (20)
>>>> errors.   rsync is v3.0.   i believe this is related to the dovecot
>>>> file naming convention that includes characters such as ':' in the
>>>> filename.   anyone else seeing similar behavior?  a workaround?   i
>>>> can go to different backup strategies, but rsync is cheap and
>>>> effective for my needs.  thanks,
>>>>
>>> Is backup over ssh an option?
>>>
>>> Alternatively could you run an rsync server at one end or the other
>>> (which then also avoids using cifs in the middle)?
>>>
>>> Ed W
>> i ll do backups with rsync on maildirs with courier
>> ( which has also : in filenames )
>> without any problems, as well i backup whole machines
>> including sockets etc without any problems
>> so the problem cant be dovecot here
>> check your rsync version and script i would guess, maybe cifs has
>> problems ..., use ssh ,ftp, nfs etc instead, or backup rsync in a  
>> local
>> dir first then tar it followed by copy over cifs just one tar file
>
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