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On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, coolatt wrote:
Am working on a solution to backup maildir mailboxes using rsync.
All mailbox directories are mirrored on another machine.
I need advise regarding restore of the INBOX & SENT files from the backup.
For e.g , [1] Can I just copy "file-x-y-z" from /Maildir/cur to restore it
on /Maildir/cur on the mailserver.
[2] Can I do same for SENT emails ?
You can do so. But it can lead to duplicate mail, because the filename is
not static, e.g. message status or keyword changes are reflected there.
There had been a thread lastly about this topic (well, a minor bit
differently); I restore the mails to a completely different folder and let
the user pick the messages and re-file them into specific mailfolders.
Others suggested to use a script to verify filename stem (before the
colon), e.g. restore to tmp/, then check new/ and cur/, if there exists a
file with the same stem. However, there had been said that there is a
possible race condition, if the message flags are changed simultaneously.
Regards,
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Steffen Kaiser
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