> On 31 May 2020, at 11:13, Laura Smith <n5d9xq3ti233xiyif...@protonmail.ch>
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>> On Sunday, 31 May 2020 09:35, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote:
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>> A couple of notes on this quite useful script:
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>> My mktemp does not support -p (FreeBSD 12.1) is I had to change the script
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> In my scripts I tend to create a tempdir and then tempfiles within that. It
> makes the cleanup routine neater, e.g. at the top of my scripts :
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> TEMP_DIR=$(mktemp -qd || { doLog "Failed to make temp dir !"; exit 1; })
> rmTmpFiles() { rm -rf "${TEMP_DIR}"; }
> createTempFile() { local MYTEMP=$(mktemp -qp "${TEMP_DIR}" || doLog "Failed
> to create temp file"; exit 1); echo $MYTEMP; }
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I don’t think I need to clean up, and my “temp_dir” will end up being
permanent, as to make doveadm backup snappier I will simply maintain the
directory there and use crown jobs to update the dir.
> Also my backup scripts have locking procedures built-in so as to avoid race
> conditions.
Also not sure if that’s needed when using doveadm backup, as it takes care of
the potential race conditions.
So the idea is to use doveadm to a local folder, then rsync it to a remote
server where snapshots can be easily created.
It annoys me have to do the doveadm to the local server - seems like a waste of
disk space, but since maildirlock is not working and since doveadm backup to a
remote server requires a bit more work to, well, to work, so I guess this is a
simple and quick solution.
Best,
Francis
