Hi,
On 01/06/09 18:45, John covici wrote:
I think this is a problem in the fact that * never includes anything
beginning wth . character. To do this, you need to back up a superior
directory to the Mail directory and that will work -- I do it all the
time.
If I look at the scripts, it seems that he is already starting the
backup from /home/username/mail without using the * in the command
line (which actually wouldn't make sense anyway).
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Marcel (Felix) Giannelia wrote:
A good way I've found to get the dot files without going up a
directory (sometimes you really don't want the extra directory level)
is the pattern "* .[^.]*", e.g.
ls * .[^.]*
will give you a list of all files and directories in the current dir,
including dot files but without "." and ".." -- I learned the hard
way that ".*" is a very bad idea because it does match "." and ".." :)
That would be a bad idea, since it would not include a file named
"..something". I've had users create files and directories with
important stuff using such names, so that they would show up on top of
the directory listing and be easy to find. So be careful with that!
Tijn, you talk about IMAP and maildir. Typically, ~/mail is used to
store mbox files (containing lots of messages in one file), and
~/Maildir is used to store Maildir / Maildir++ format mailboxes (in
which each email is a separate file).
So, please check your system to make sure you're not accidentally
trying to backup the wrong mail location.
Furthermore, I just checked my own setup, and I don't see any hidden
files go missing from the backup. I didn't need to do anything special
to get it done this way.
I also noted that you use the '--create-full-path' parameter when
starting the backup. Using it that way may with several paths in
multiple runs may not do exactly what's expected.
Do you want your backups to look like:
/backup/snapshots/hourly/home/cybertinus/mail/home/cybertinus/mail/something?
Something you could do to find out exactly what rdiff-backup is doing,
is adding a -v5 parameter to the command line, and see what it does.
In the rdiff-backup-data you can also find session statistics files,
mirror metadata files with information about every backed-up file, and
a full backup log to browse through.
Hope this helps..
Regards,
Maarten
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