On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 15:23 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote: > > If it does, see if deleting the destination mdbox and running dsync > > again from scratch works. > > Even worse this time: > > chris@one-mail(~)$ sudo dsync -v -u chris backup mdbox:/home/chris/mdbox > [sudo] password for chris: > dsync(chris): Error: open() failed with mbox file /home/chris/mail/admin: > Permission denied
Well, this is the problem. dsync aborts early because it can't open the mailbox.. Fixing it in the code didn't look as simple as I hoped, so since this is unlikely to be a common problem, maybe you could just remove the symlink for now or give enough permissions for the duration of dsync..