Hello,
I've been tasked with migrating a smallish (@90 mailboxes) company from
a linux/dovecot mail server to Office 365, and after experiencing a ton
of issues with Microsoft's native Imap syncing tool, I decided to use
Imapsync, and it is working perfectly.
It has the ability to add a simple re
On 10/5/2009, Ed W (li...@wildgooses.com) wrote:
> If you resist using a fileformat which has some kind of implicit
> "chunking" capability (eg maildir isn't perfect, but kind of goes in
> the opposite direction and chunks your mail into lots of smaller
> files - perhaps too many in the opinion of
On 10/5/2009, Ed W (li...@wildgooses.com) wrote:
> Ideally I would like to see a kind of half and half maildir/mbox
> format emerge for email (perhaps dbox from dovecot will get there?)
Guess I should have read your entire email before replying... ;)
Its slated for 2.0 now, so will be a bit longe
On 12/6/2009, Louise Hoffman (louise.hoff...@gmail.com) wrote:
> The way I read that, it's not something rsync-specific. It sounds
> like btrfs would allow the generation of a list of files, which rsync
> (or tar, or zip, or whatever) could accept. (Rsync obviously being
> the best choice, :-) )
S
On 2010-01-17 12:29 PM, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> It would be 'nice' if there was an option for rsync to ignore case --
> Windows is real lax about what case files are, and often files will
> end up with different cases depending on what util installed a font
> last. When you transfer to linux, you
On 2010-09-09 5:07 PM, Blaine Miller wrote:
> I give up... this is one of the least intuitive lists I've ever tried to
> subscribe to...
What are you talking about? Your messages are coming through.
You don't need to ask permission to ask a question, just ask your
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On 2012-01-16 3:03 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:
On 01/16/12 09:55, L. V. Lammert wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Satish Shukla wrote:
b) pulling the data from source to destination ( i.e.
running rsync from destination machine)
The main reason to pull is with hard linking of the saved files,
e
On 2012-01-16 4:06 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:
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Q: Can I set the snapshot_root to a remote SSH path?
The OP didn't specify over SSH (... I'm doing this to an NFS mount) -
that came into the picture later from other
On 2012-01-16 4:37 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:
As far as rsync is concerned an NFS mount is neither push or pull.
Oh baloney... it is pushing a backup from a local system to a remote system.
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On 2013-11-17 4:02 AM, samba-b...@samba.org wrote:
I'm using gigabit ethernet, obviously, with mtu set to 1500 and no TCP options
other than the following in smb.conf:
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=131072 SO_SNDBUF=131072
First, remove these...
These options have been deprecate
Hello,
I'm going to be moving a filesystem around, and was planning on using
rsync to do it, so like to get some advice from those more experienced
than I (both using rsync, and moving filesystems)...
I currently have a system that has a separate /usr on an LVM partition.
I want to merge thi
On 2013-12-02 4:49 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:
A little Gentoo specific info here...
On 12/02/13 16:24, Leen Besselink wrote:
On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 02:31:23PM -0500, Charles Marcus wrote:
Hello,
I'm going to be moving a filesystem around, and was planning on
using rsync to do it, so like t
On 2013-12-02 5:55 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:
mount/dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo/
You might have to specify more options here. Check what they are
before you shut down.
Ok, thinking about this more... since booting off a liveCD means I'm not
using the systems fstab, so I have to specify the filesystem to
On 2013-12-03 9:37 AM, Kevin Korb wrote:
Or do I need to specify the filesystem type?
mount -t ext3 -o noatime /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo/ ?
I would expect to do this. Also, you should be converting to ext4 not
ext3. In fact, your kernel probably doesn't even have ext3 in it
anymore. Standard ke
On 2013-12-04 3:43 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
For that matter, is there a reason not to give "cp" a try"
mkdir /usr.tmp && cp -ax /usr/. /usr.tmp/.
I guarantee it will be faster than rsync. That or star -- if you want
to know options, I'd have to reread the manpage, way too much to
remember.
T
On 2013-12-05 12:03 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
For a one time copy... 'cp' should work fine...
Except that someone on the gentoo list claims that cp will silently copy
corrupted files, but rsync will not... which is a pretty good reason to
use rsync over cp (I was looking for specific reasons wh
On 2013-12-07 10:16 AM, Kevin Korb wrote:
The only way cp is going to corrupt files is if you have bad RAM in
the system and in that case rsync probably will too.
I said that this person said that cp will silently copy CORRUPTED files,
not that it will silently CORRUPT files during the copy p
On 2013-12-07 10:14 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
Anyway, I'm thinking now that the 'best of both worlds' might be to do
the cp first on the live system, then boot into single user mode (is
it safe to change the /usr mount point/location when in single user
mode?), then do a qui
On 2013-12-04 3:43 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
I'd do it with the system *up*, and, as someone else suggested, copy
/usr to /usr.tmp (assuming you are moving from /usr to the root fs.
For that matter, is there a reason not to give "cp" a try"
mkdir /usr.tmp && cp -ax /usr/. /usr.tmp/.
Ok, so, af
On 2013-12-08 11:38 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
3. Copy current /usr to temp directory
rsync -avHP --numeric-ids /usr//tmp-usr/
Decided to use rsync, and have a question...
Why, after rsync'ing /usr to /tmp-usr, do the sizes differ?
# du -h --max-depth=0 /usr
3.5G/usr
and
#
On 2013-12-08 2:11 PM, Charles Marcus wrote:
Why, after rsync'ing /usr to /tmp-usr, do the sizes differ?
# du -h --max-depth=0 /usr
3.5G/usr
and
# du -h --max-depth=0 /tmp-usr
3.7G/tmp-usr
Is that because of the different filesystems (ext4 on / and reiserfs
on /usr) maybe?
Hi all,
Ok, I'm attempting to rsync a large datastore (email), and want to
change the ownership of the target directories and files.
I saw the --chmod option in man rsync, but didn't see a --chown option...
What I'd like to do is something like:
rsync -avHP --chown vmail:vmail /mnt/old-mail/
On 2013-12-21 2:18 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:
The current version of rsync does have a --chown option.
So, by current you mean... 3.1.x?
I have 3.0.9 (3.1 isn't stable in gentoo yet), but --chown isn't in the
man page for it...
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Ok, thanks...
On 2013-12-21 3:38 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:
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Correct. It is a 3.1 feature.
On 12/21/2013 03:31 PM, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2013-12-21 2:18 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:
The current version of rsync does have a --chown option.
So, by
Hi all,
Ok, since 3.1 still isn't in stable, I'm curious if I can just find the
equivalent of:
rsync -avHP --delete --exclude-from '/home/user/excludes.txt'
/mnt/example.com/ /var/vmail/example.com/
But that will ignore differences in permissions - ie, won't recopy
everything, just because
Which is what the command at the bottom is... I was just asking for
confirmation that I was thinking right about it...
On 2013-12-22 3:01 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:
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That would be -a except for the -p part.
On 12/22/2013 02:58 PM, Charles Marcus wrote
On 2013-12-22 2:58 PM, Charles Marcus wrote:
rsync -rltgovDHP --delete --exclude-from '/home/user/excludes.txt'
/mnt/example.com/ /var/vmail/example.com/
Also... being the paranoid schizophrenic that I am, adding the --delete
option makes me nervous.
There is no way that the abo
Hi all,
Ok, if this isn't possible with some kind of wildcard, I can adjust the
target manually, but if I can just modify the command to allow for the
different folder structure on the target, I'd rather do that.
I'm incrementally rsync'ing my mailstore from the old server to the new
server,
Hello,
I have a system that currently uses rsync (via rsnapshot) with
--link-dest enabled to backup our mail store...
If I change the permissions on the source maildirs, will this cause
everything to be transferred again? Meaning, will rsync see everything
as 'modified', thus creating a new
On 2014-01-01 1:12 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:
The files will not be transferred but they will be stored separately
as new versions of the file even if the content is the same.
Ok, so, 'stored separately' = take up additional space? which is what I
want to avoid.
Permissions are per inode not di
On 2014-01-01 2:02 PM, Wayne Davison wrote:
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 3:59 AM, Charles Marcus
mailto:cmar...@media-brokers.com>> wrote:
On the old server, dovecot is configured to just use
.../example.com/user <http://example.com/user> for the maildirs.
On the target se
On 2014-01-01 1:12 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:
The easiest solution is to just do the same chmod on the most recent
backup before running the next backup.
Hi Kevin,
This worked perfectly, and my shiny new server is now live, so thanks
very much.
I have a related question though...
I want to con
Hi,
I'm very interested in learning the status of the --ignorecase patch
being included in the main tree... is there a reason it still isn't in
there?
For anyone who is forced to dealing with backing up windows boxes, this
is a big problem, and I can't believe that it isn't affecting a lot o
Wayne Davison wrote:
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 01:01:20PM -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
I'm very interested in learning the status of the --ignorecase patch
being included in the main tree...
My currently plan is to include that functionality in 3.0.0. I've been
improving the patch
That said - you said '3.0', and 'fairly soon'... does that mean that 3.0
will be the next major release?
To clarify... will the next version be 2.7, or 3.0?
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You need to supply the --checksum option if you want to make sure
that the contents are indeed identical. This is normally not done
as that would cause a massive IO load; cases that size and
timestamp are identical but not the contents don't usually
happen...
The manual is indeed not very clear
Matt McCutchen, on 7/17/2007 2:50 PM, said the following:
On 7/17/07, Jamie Lokier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am in fact working towards such a program, though not with
proprietary congestion control. :-) It's currently in the form of a
distributed database of 650 devices, which I aim to scal
On 7/18/2007, Chuck Wolber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
In linux, you delete files with the "rm" command...
OT follow-up...
Is there an alternate way to remove an entire directory *without*
traversing the directory itself?
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Wayne Davison, on 5/4/2007 12:11 PM, said the following:
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 01:01:20PM -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
I'm very interested in learning the status of the --ignorecase patch
being included in the main tree...
My currently plan is to include that functionality in 3.0.0.
Hi Wayne,
Just checking to see if this is in the official tree yet?
It isn't. Wayne, perhaps you have a further comment about when it will be.
Thanks Matt - we'll see what Wayne says...
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Matt McCutchen, on 7/20/2007 10:28 AM, said the following:
On 7/20/07, Charles Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Wayne,
Just checking to see if this is in the official tree yet?
It isn't. Wayne, perhaps you have a further comment about when it will be.
Wayne?
Thanks
If those files don't have hardlinks (or you're not interested
in preserving hardlinks), you can greatly improve performance
by trying the 3.0.0 cvs snapshot.
Which suggests that the current CVS version won't preserve hardlinks?
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The issue is that asking to preserve hardlinks turns off incremental
recursion mode, which was what gives the performance benefit.
Ahh... ok, sorry...
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Before posting, read: http://www.
Rather than waiting for the ignore case patch to be added to the
standard rsync,
One big reason I pinged the list (and you and Wayne) is to be the
'squeaky wheel' - I'm hoping this doesn't fall through the cracks and
actually does make it into the 3.0 release... otherwise, I'll have to
keep b
I get the feeling it's time to turn this list into a moderated one ...
I'm surprised - does this list not incorporate some kind of captcha
/confirmation system for registering members? Its been so long since I
signed up, I don't remember...
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On 8/28/2007, Paul Slootman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
The list is open to non-members, to make help with rsync more
accessible. Unfortunately some idiots feel the need to abuse this
(what the point of the last set of subscriptions to some webshop's
mailing list is, is beyond me).
In this day a
Matt McCutchen, on 8/28/2007 9:59 AM, said the following:
On 8/28/07, Charles Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In this day and age, that is a most unwise policy. For one, it opens up
*MY* email address to spammers.
Please, rsync list maintainers - join the 21st century, respect *MY*
p
Frank Thomas, on 10/4/2007 3:57 PM, said the following:
it would be nice to have rsync to be intelligent enough to recognize
a name change but not an inode change on the source.
Seems to me the best way to accomplish this is to be sure that the
parent directory is not a directory that someone
On 12/25/2007, Eric S. Johansson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[[ related thought. if rsync had a plugin architecture allowing per
file transformation (pre and post transfer) one could build
encryption in as an addon]]
the idea of the encryption extension is that when a file is ready for
block
Hi,
A recent thread here reminded me to ask a question I've been wondering
about...
Is there a way to use rsync with large COMPRESSED files? Specifically, I
have a large Quickbooks Data file (>600MB) that compresses down to about
100MB - so obviously I'd rather rsync the smaller file (this i
On 3/3/2008, Jason Haar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Basically PST (and OST) files don't play nicely with differential
copy tools.
They also get very unstable the closer to 2GB in size you get...
I'd never let a PST file get over about 500MB - had too many problems
when I did (don't use it any
Anyone ever heard of or used something called DataSafe Backup?
http://sofgem.selfip.com/
Claims to take advantage of 'hard links' on windows to windows backups...
Interesting... I'll be giving it a try on one of my clients networks
just for fun...
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On 5/15/2008 7:18 PM, Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 06:39:03PM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
>> Wayne, do you have a comment about the inclusion of --ignore-case?
> I don't particularly like the option, so my current inclination is to
> just keep it available in the patches directo
On 5/16/2008, Matt McCutchen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> To some degree I can see Wayne's rationale for not including
> --ignore-case in the main version of rsync. Officially, rsync targets
> only Unix-like systems, not Windows, though OS-specific compatibility
> changes/features are fair game fo
On 7/4/2008, Wayne Davison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Other things in the patches dir, suggestions made here, and enhancement
requests from bugzilla will all be reviewed for possible inclusion.
I'd still like to see the --ignore-case patch to be made part of the
official rsync source...
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On 7/11/2008, Jeff MacDonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I'm trying to rsync a fairly large chunk of data [around 350 gigs,
mostly 1 gig files] between 2 hosts in separate colo facilities. Link
is plenty fast, I can pull 10 megs easily.
Everytime, it seems to die with something like this, whether
On 7/11/2008 3:11 PM, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
I'm trying to rsync a fairly large chunk of data [around 350 gigs,
mostly 1 gig files] between 2 hosts in separate colo facilities. Link
is plenty fast, I can pull 10 megs easily.
Everytime, it seems to die with something like this, whether I try
rsync
On 12/3/2008 9:41 PM, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good win32 GUI rsync client?
The rsync.net guys recently released one... it is not hidden on their
website, and there are no restrictions from downloading it, or in the
license when you install it, so I'm guessing you can use it
On 12/5/2008 11:31 AM, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
> I downloaded the client and it wont allow you to enter something that does
> not have the "rsync.net" as a substring.
Hmmm... maybe you could get around that by a little local DNS magic... I
may try that sometime in the next few weeks...
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On 3/3/2009 8:52 AM, m...@bortal.de wrote:
>>> unfortunatelly rsync is beeing REALLY slow and produces a high load when
>>> we try to sync lots of files (>250 000 small files).
>> What version of rsync are you using?
> # rsync --version
> rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29
Upgrade to 3.0.
On 3/4/2009, Daniel.Li (daniel...@usish.com) wrote:
> So I wanna know how to maximize the performance both of large file
> (1GB patter file) and small file (MP3, about 2~5MB per file)
>
> Maybe MP3 shouldn't be considered small files, right?
>
> Do u guys have any suggestions?
> Any hint or adv
On 3/4/2009, Boniforti Flavio (fla...@piramide.ch) wrote:
> Why has upgrading to 3.0.5 to be done *on both sides*? Any explanation?!
It is quite simple... support for the new options requires 3.0.x on both
sides...
> As I'm running Debian Lenny (which has 3.0.3), do I have to switch to
> Debian S
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