-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Wojciech,
On 07/16/12 08:20, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> I would like to do incremental backups of the users' maildir directories to >> a dedicated backup host (using "rsync -SHa" and rsnapshot). > > dont use it. > > use rsync -b option. It is MUCH MUCH BETTER. > > i use it regularly. > I will try. > Split your rsync session if you have huge amount of users or rsync would be > taking enormous amount of RAM and have larger chance to fail. > >> Problem is: Dovecot bloats the incremental backup by changing the file names >> again and again. > > I didn't observe that except when moving from "new" to "cur" > > but --detect-renamed fixes it. > This did not work: # rsync -SHa --detect-renamed /etc/motd /var/tmp rsync: --detect-renamed: unknown option I am using rsync version 3.0.9, but AFAICS there is no such option on the cvs HEAD either. Many thanx Harri -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlAE6WYACgkQUTlbRTxpHjep6gCfQZCOD6t4O1zUkEtKW4j2sPKD OJkAniZAbVWzYhanyeA1koYtyOJU7N53 =X9Jz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
