Re: [Dovecot] incremental backups of maildir via rsync

2012-07-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
but --detect-renamed fixes it. This did not work: # rsync -SHa --detect-renamed /etc/motd /var/tmp rsync: --detect-renamed: unknown option rsync 3.0.9 FreeBSD ports with option "enable detect renamed" it uses rsync-patches-3.0.9.tar.gz in addition to main source. patch for renaming files de

Re: [Dovecot] incremental backups of maildir via rsync

2012-07-16 Thread Harald Dunkel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Robert, On 07/16/12 08:46, Robert Schetterer wrote: > > dsync backup ,may the better the solution in your case > I will surely try. This looks very promising. Many thanx Harri -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [Dovecot] incremental backups of maildir via rsync

2012-07-16 Thread Harald Dunkel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Wojciech, On 07/16/12 08:20, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> I would like to do incremental backups of the users' maildir directories to >> a dedicated backup host (using "rsync -SHa" and rsnapshot). > > dont use it. > > use rsync -b option. It is MUC

Re: [Dovecot] incremental backups of maildir via rsync

2012-07-15 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 16.07.2012 07:20, schrieb Harald Dunkel: > Hi folks, > > I would like to do incremental backups of the users' maildir > directories to a dedicated backup host (using "rsync -SHa" > and rsnapshot). > > Problem is: Dovecot bloats the incremental backup by changing > the file names again and agai

Re: [Dovecot] incremental backups of maildir via rsync

2012-07-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I would like to do incremental backups of the users' maildir directories to a dedicated backup host (using "rsync -SHa" and rsnapshot). dont use it. use rsync -b option. It is MUCH MUCH BETTER. i use it regularly. Split your rsync session if you have huge amount of users or rsync would be ta

Re: [Dovecot] incremental backups of maildir via rsync

2012-07-15 Thread Gedalya
On 07/16/2012 01:20 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote: Is there some way to tell Dovecot to keep meta information separate from the file names? If yes, then it's no longer maildir.

[Dovecot] incremental backups of maildir via rsync

2012-07-15 Thread Harald Dunkel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, I would like to do incremental backups of the users' maildir directories to a dedicated backup host (using "rsync -SHa" and rsnapshot). Problem is: Dovecot bloats the incremental backup by changing the file names again and again. Is there