On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 05:18:51PM -0700, Cameron Matheson enlightened us: > I've recently gotten the appropriate holes cut in my firewall that allow > me to backup my mail server. The problem is that Maildirs don't seem to > want to be backed up... the backups fail, w/ hundreds of errors like > these in the logs: > > ?gtar:./home/vmail/fjcomm.com/V/foo.bar/new/1137800711.V805Iac017.zena.tonservices.com: > > Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory > > I tried googling for what exactly 'Cannot stat' means, but I didn't come > up w/ anything too conclusive. Anyway, why exactly should there be so > many hundreds of these erros (mostly confined to one or two users > mailboxes (but different users every night). If i don't back up the > Maildirs, that server backs up just fine. It doesn't seem like these > mailboxes should be changing *that* much overnight (maybe i'm wrong?). >
Maildir moves the files from the new/ directory to the cur/ directory when they've been accessed. Usually this means that the user (or the user's mail program) was running between the estimates being done and the backup being performed. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
