I have the same problem: backing up IMAP mail on a linux box to a win2k box.
My solution was to tar each mail directory and then rsync that. I'm
running a cron job on the linux box to do the tars and rsyncs.
-john
Brent Blayney wrote:
Hello to all,
I have a script which uses rsync quite nicely to backup my Linux mail
server to my XP machine from time to time to facilitate CDR archives.
The scrip is run as a batch file on the XP box and is scheduled via
Windows Scheduler.
It works quite well with one exception: many of the mail files come
through as 0KB files and it seems that most of these have unusual
filenames, particularly those starting with a period. Since this
affects 95% of the files in the mail directories, this is a serious
problem for me! For instance:
1120817285.22306_0.mail (works fine)
.1124450874.30945_0.mail (reports 0KB)
.1123700716.P14142Q0M23.mail (reports 0KB)
.1087907444.7006_1.mail.domain.com,U=1,W=42566 (reports 0KB)
Is there any known fix for this problem? I realize that Linux
filenames and conventions don't necessarily play nice with Windows,
but perhaps someone here as experience in getting this to work.
Google has thus far proved ineffective in finding a solution!
Also, since I'm new to these mailing lists, how do I reply to someone
who as replied to my post?
Thanks!
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