On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 20:59 +0100, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > I'm in the processes of running our first dsync backup of all users > (from maildir to mdbox on remote server), and one problem I'm hitting > that dsync will work fine on first run for some users, and then > reliably fail whenever I try a new run: > > $ sudo dsync -u janfr...@example.net backup ssh -q > mailbac...@repo1.example.net dsync -u janfr...@example.net > $ sudo dsync -u janfr...@example.net backup ssh -q > mailbac...@repo1.example.net dsync -u janfr...@example.net > dsync-remote(janfr...@example.net): Error: Can't delete mailbox > directory INBOX/a: Mailbox has children, delete them first > > The problem here seems to be that this user has a maildir named > ".a.b". On the backup side I see this as "a/b/". > > So dsync doesn't quite seem to agree with itself for how to handle > folders with dot in the name.
So here on source you have namespace separator '.' and in destination you have separator '/'? Maybe that's the problem? Try with both having '.' separator.
