-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 04:15:02PM +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de schrieb: > > On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:41:40PM +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> i ll do backups with rsync on maildirs with courier > >> ( which has also : in filenames ) > > > > Stupid question: with CIFS as target filesystem? > > no never, why should i do this, nfs , ssh etc should be faster and more > secure etc
Nor would I, for that. But I can afford the luxury to see CIFS once a couple of years :) > > Because there are some chars which are AFAIK taboo on Windows file > > systems (colon being one, AFAIR -- luckily my memory on that is hazy :) > > jo as i said cifs may not like some stuff, but i see no reason what > force using cifs, after all you can rsync the maildir dir to another dir > on the source server, > tar it afterwards and copy it over cifs, as workaround > this should work ever, and easy scriptable Of course you lose the network bandwith savings rsync offers to you, then :-( OTOH, it might make sense experimenting with rsyncing the tar (if it doesn't change much), or, when gzipping it, using the --rsyncable option. Maybe not all is lost. Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFK1Wg3Bcgs9XrR2kYRAjLAAJ9VLmhtWI+qXx8b+Y9dAo1ZTyQ0AACfeaSp AXk4iAf6OMVw8DYdMGGdiUo= =eajr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
