Re: Best Practice: Backing up Maildirs

From: Keith Matthews (no email)
Date: Thu Jul 14 2005 - 03:01:49 EDT

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    On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:36:01 -0700
    "Michael Nguyen" <> wrote:

    > From: "cv" <>
    >
    > Hi Curtis.
    >
    > > I was just wondering how long is long and why that matters (unless we're
    > > talking about half a day). I also use an rsync script that I have
    > > crontab-bed to run after midnight. It may take a couple of hours to back
    > up
    > > each mail server, but then, what do I care? I'm asleep.
    >
    > We're talking more than half a day. What seems to take the longest is
    > calculating the file lists as there are just tons and tons and tons of tiny
    > files that are often moved.
    >
    > The backup of the mail servers started at 00:18 AM and it's currently 15:32
    > PM here. The mail servers are about 70% done. Size-wise, we're talking
    > about 3 servers totalling less than 500GB. The actual size doesn't seem to
    > be the problem, but rather the time it takes to create the list of files to
    > be transferred.
    >
    >

    Have you looked at isync ?

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