Re: rsync-ing IMAP mbox-format mailboxes to NetApp

2007-05-31 Thread Chris Wakelin
Paul Slootman wrote: > On Wed 30 May 2007, Chris Wakelin wrote: >> However, our IMAP software (Dovecot, but UW-IMAP does this too) stores >> important, *changing* information (UIDVALIDITY and UIDNEXT) in a header >> in the *first* mail message in the mailbox, so the first b

rsync-ing IMAP mbox-format mailboxes to NetApp

2007-05-30 Thread Chris Wakelin
Hi all, Sorry for the longish post! I've been looking at using rsync to mirror our mailstore (BSD/mbox format, i.e. flat files consisting of concatenated plaintext messages) to a NetApp Nearstore (basically a filer with SATA rather than FC disk) mounted over NFS. I want to do this in such a way