Re: OfflineIMAP for backups

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

On Nov 30, 2007 1:53 PM, Vincent Beffara <vbeffara+ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It doesn't, except that if you don't plan on using the staging area for
> anything else, there isn't much risk of an accident in the first place,
> since only offlineimap and rsync will access it anyway. Rsync will be
> one-directional, no risk there, and you want to use OfflineIMAP anyway.
> The only remaining risk is if you remove files by hand, which you will
> know not to do, and the unlikely "rm -rf" removing the whole Maildir,
> but then OfflineIMAP will refuse to sync ...

Ah right, it's good that offlineimap refuses to sync in this case.

I think together with Raffi's suggestion to use a dedicated user
account for this, this solution really should be pretty safe.

> So it looks pretty safe to me, but I agree that it is not 100%.

Nothing is 100% anyway :)

Thanks to all who replied!

Regards,
 Mika