13.02.2013 23:53, Josh Fisher kirjoitti:
> On 2/13/2013 8:29 AM, Jari Fredriksson wrote:
>> I have a backup job using Accurate=Yes and that job backs up Maildirs on
>> my server.
>>
>> I have not tested what happens to message time stamps when Dovecot moves
>> files from folder to another. Is there any special considerations to
>> make this work with Backula?
>>
>> Does anyone has any experince with this kind of backup. I want Bacula
>> incremental to backup the moved files in the new folder, and removed (as
>> in Accurate) them from the old folders. How does Dovecot maintain the
>> date time attributes on the files, and does Bacule see the transactions
>> properly. I fear that Dovecot might not change the time stamps, and
>> Bacula incremental dies not see the messages.
>>
> Dovecot copies the file from folder1 to folder2, changes the mtime of 
> the file in folder2 to match the original file, and then renames the 
> original file in folder1 to flag it as deleted but not yet purged. This 
> means that both files will have their ctime updated and an incremental 
> will back both up. Of course, if the user purges the folder then the 
> original file in folder1 will be deleted, and in that case the deletion 
> will be handled by Accurate=Yes.
>
> Dovecot doesn't much care about filesystem times because it encodes 
> date/time, flags, and whatever it cares about into the actual name of 
> the file.
>
>

Thanks, Josh!

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