[ILUG] Script to move Maildir content

[Pádraig Brady]

Patrick O'Connor wrote:
> I've got a bunch of mails (in Maildir format) to move from one server to
> another.

60G would take about 1.5 hours on a 100MB LAN.
Please treat the following like pseudo code
as it's just off the top of my head:

#!/bin/sh

# run this as root

archive="/where/ever"
newloc="/blah/blah"
group=somedomain

tr : ' ' < users | #no need for IFS
while read oldu newu; do
    (cd "$archive/$oldu" && tar -c cur .* --exclude .Trash ) | gzip |
    ssh root at remote 'install -o$newu -g$group -d "$newloc/$newu" &&
     cd "$newloc/$newu" && gzip -dc | tar --owner $newu --group $group -xp'
done

If copying to a locally attached disk then replace the last 2 lines with:
(install -o$newu -g$group -d "$newloc/$newu" &&
 cd "$newloc/$newu" && gzip -dc | tar --owner $newu --group $group -xp)