Re: Best Practice: Backing up Maildirs

From: Keith Matthews (no email)
Date: Thu Jul 14 2005 - 14:00:01 EDT

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    On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:46:23 -0700
    "Michael Nguyen" <> wrote:

    > From: "Keith Matthews" <>
    >
    > [snip]
    >
    > > Have you looked at isync ?
    >
    > No I haven't, but it sounds really interesting. The thing is, it just
    > doesn't seem like it'd be fast -- especially when comparing it to
    > transferring a file directly from a filesystem.
    >

    probably won't be first time round, but later it will be a matter of
    comparing file names then copying the ones that are new or have moved.
    No need to do a comparison of file contents/timestamps as rsync would.

    > Maybe I'll try it over the weekend to see how it acts. I can imagine
    > running it for each user and having the script take the mail server
    > down to its knees or something. ;-)
    >

    Be interested in how you get on, looks like I'm going to have to build a
    similar system albeit a little smaller.

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