[Dovecot] Anyone successfully setup Continous Backup of mailboxes using rsync ?

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I tried the  "--fuzzy --delete-after" options.
It works fine when the files are renamed.
But the prob is that when a mail is deleted it gets deleted from the backup server as well.

Is there a way to prevent deletion when using these options?
 
Thanks
CoolAtt

> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> From: sb at dod.no
> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:58:27 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Anyone successfully setup Continous Backup of	mailboxes using rsync ?
> 
> >>>>> Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> 
> > The main potential problem with that is that if a message's flag is
> > changed, the filename changes so it's now stored twice in the backup
> > server. So when restoring mails, be sure not to restore duplicates.
> 
> I use the --fuzzy flag to handle the renaming issue.  Here's my crontab
> entry on the machine holding the backup:
>  0 * * * * rsync --archive --fuzzy --delete-after imapserver:Maildir .
> 
> As you can see I only sync once an hour.  I don't have enough email
> traffic to justify doing it continously.
> 
> The --delete-after is so rsync won't delete files that have been removed
> on the source, before figuring out that a file has been renamed and not
> been deleted.
> 
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