Re: OfflineIMAP for backups

["Mika Fischer" <mf+offlineimap@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 28, 2007 8:49 PM, Vincent Beffara <vbeffara+ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> An idea could be, if you have plenty of disk space, to run offlineimap
> to sync an IMAP server to a "staging" Maildir, and then use something
> like "rsync --delete" to propagate (in one direction) from the staging
> area to the "real" backup. So supposedly the staging area is always
> identical to the IMAP version by construction, and the real backup does
> not affect the live system.

I wouldn't care much about the disk space but again, I fail to see how
this solution can prevent syncing accidental changes of the "staging"
Maildir to the server.

Regards,
 Mika