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bhogg
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 6:06 am    Post subject: Maildir backup using rsync - errors Reply with quote

Hi all,

I'm trying to do a backup of my .maildir, and I'm getting errors such as:

Code:

mkstemp "/d-drive/BhomeBackups/.maildir/.Clubs/cur/.1107494424.M324558P1609V0000000000000306I002D0A8C_1850.bhome,S=26519:2,RS.Nghe7Y" failed: Invalid argument


when running the rsync command:

Code:

rsync -rLptgouD /home/bhogg/.maildir/ blaptop:/d-drive/BhomeBackups/maildir/


rsync commands with the same flags work otherwise, so I'm guessing it has something to do with the long cryptic file names. Any ideas?

The maildir isn't that large, and it's only for a single user, so there won't be any "building file list" errors.

Thanks,
Brian
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tinwood
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is d-drive a FAT/NTFS file system? If so the ':' would end up being an illegal filename. See http://www.mail-archive.com/courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg20360.html for some further details?

Please ignore if I'm barking up the wrong tree.
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bhogg
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

Nope, you are right.... I didn't even think to check since the 255 character limit wasn't exceeded, but things like commas would definitely mess it up.

Now to get the firewall working right... dlink seems to be intermittently rejecting http/imap requests.

Thanks,
Brian
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