Re: [Dovecot] backup using rsync

2009-10-14 Thread Ed W
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -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 w

Re: [Dovecot] backup using rsync

2009-10-13 Thread tomas
-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 > >> ( wh

Re: [Dovecot] backup using rsync

2009-10-13 Thread Robert Schetterer
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 e

Re: [Dovecot] backup using rsync

2009-10-13 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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? Because there are some chars which a

Re: [Dovecot] backup using rsync

2009-10-10 Thread Scott Murman
thanks, as i noted i am using rsync v3, so the problem lies elsewhere (maybe the ',' character?). i ended up starting an rsync daemon on the remote server and using that. so far so good. i can't say too many nice things about cifs, but it's a necessary evil here. On Oct 9, 2009, at 7:0

Re: [Dovecot] backup using rsync

2009-10-09 Thread David Favor
Yes. Be sure to check your rsync version. As I recall the 2.x series has bugs related to this. I had a similar problem on MacOS until I upgraded to 3.0.6 and all is well with ':' on MacOS & Ubuntu at this level. Robert Schetterer wrote: Ed W schrieb: Scott Murman wrote: i'm trying to backup t

Re: [Dovecot] backup using rsync

2009-10-09 Thread Robert Schetterer
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 relate

Re: [Dovecot] backup using rsync

2009-10-09 Thread Ed W
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 n

Re: [Dovecot] backup using rsync

2009-10-07 Thread Scott Murman
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 seei

Re: [Dovecot] backup using rsync

2009-10-05 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Murman said the following on 06/10/09 04:55: > 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

[Dovecot] backup using rsync

2009-10-05 Thread Scott Murman
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