RSYNC changes file name

[James B. Byrne]

I am using rsync to backup a cyrus-imap maildir tree.  Messages are
stored in the maildir with files names considing of a number followed
by a trailing dot.  For example '12345,'  My problem is that when
rsync copies the files from the maildir to the backup device the file
names that it creates on the target lack the tailing dot.   So the
message '12345.' becomes '12345' on the target.

I have not experienced this behaviour before.  The transfer command I
used is:

rsync \
  --copy-links  \
  --no-group  \
  --no-perms   \
  --progress  \
  --protect-args  \
  --modify-window=1  \
  --recursive  \
  --times  \
  --update  \
  --verbose  \
     /home/byrnejb_hll/Documents/Personal/IMAP/byrnejb_hll  \
     /media/KINGSTON/vhost04/byrnejb_hll/Documents/Personal/IMAP/byrnejb_hll

If I add a --delete-before option to the command then all of the
messages files without trailing dots are deleted and then recreated.
Therefore there is no gain in transfer speed since the existing files
are not recognised by rsync as being the same as it is about to create
on transfer.

The progress messages look like this:

byrnejb_hll/INBOX^Trash/206.
         55,961 100%  100.83kB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#16261,
ir-chk=9826/26446)

So the source file is recognised as having a trailing dot but the
resulting target file does not have it.

Is there some switch required to handle this?


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