Ed W schrieb: > Scott Murman wrote: >> i'm trying to backup the dovecot Maildir files over a cifs share. >> source is a debian build, share is a readynas. i've been getting >> rsync: mkstemp 'filename goes here' failed: Not a directory (20) >> errors. rsync is v3.0. i believe this is related to the dovecot >> file naming convention that includes characters such as ':' in the >> filename. anyone else seeing similar behavior? a workaround? i >> can go to different backup strategies, but rsync is cheap and >> effective for my needs. thanks, >> > > Is backup over ssh an option? > > Alternatively could you run an rsync server at one end or the other > (which then also avoids using cifs in the middle)? > > Ed W
i ll do backups with rsync on maildirs with courier ( which has also : in filenames ) without any problems, as well i backup whole machines including sockets etc without any problems so the problem cant be dovecot here check your rsync version and script i would guess, maybe cifs has problems ..., use ssh ,ftp, nfs etc instead, or backup rsync in a local dir first then tar it followed by copy over cifs just one tar file -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria
