Re: multiple instances of mbsync at the same time: dangerous?

2015-05-13 Thread Ram Raghunathan
Oswald, Oh, this is very interesting! I didn't know that mbsync locked against other processes. I have just been using lockrun all this time. Nice to know that I don't have to disable my cronjob when I debug. =) Regards, Ram Raghunathan On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 3:19 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote

Re: multiple instances of mbsync at the same time: dangerous?

2015-05-13 Thread Peter P.
* Oswald Buddenhagen [2015-05-13 03:19]: > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 05:22:31PM -0400, Peter P. wrote: > > Is there an inherent danger in having two mbsyncs do their work at the > > same time, could they somehow conflict? > > > no. you'll just get messages about locked mailboxes. Thank you Oswald,

Re: journal and new state files

2015-05-13 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Oswald Buddenhagen writes: > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 03:51:06PM -0400, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> I have migrated (yet again) to another computer, and since I had >> pretty good luck last time I did this, I just rsync'd the message >> directories and ~/.mbsync over onto the new machine directly. >

Re: multiple instances of mbsync at the same time: dangerous?

2015-05-13 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 05:22:31PM -0400, Peter P. wrote: > Is there an inherent danger in having two mbsyncs do their work at the > same time, could they somehow conflict? > no. you'll just get messages about locked mailboxes.

Re: Continuous syncing

2015-05-13 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 09:11:22PM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > I have a (possibly silly) idea for my set-up that basically involves mbsync > running continuously as a daemon, [...] > > a) are there existing tools available to do this? (I do not have shell > access > to the remote se