[Dovecot] Backup Maildir

[Gunter Ohrner]

Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2005 08:30 schrieb Remy Zandwijk:
> the Maildir data. I think the change that an open file is being
> backupped is very small, but besides that, our users mostly want to

Am I wrong or are the files within a maildir more or less immutable?

As I understood it they get renamed and moved around a bit, but are not 
altered.

So simply backing up the maildir as a bunch of files and dirs should be 
pretty safe, I think.

Greetings,

  Gunter

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