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From: David Cary Hart (no email)
Date: Thu Jul 14 2005 - 15:33:05 EDT
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 11:44 -0500, Gary Maltzen wrote:
> The first mistake is in using rsync on mail folders - they are far too
> dynamic.
> Possibly faster suggestion:
> 1) use tar to transfer the folder contents to a NEW folder on the
> backup system.
> 2) replace the OLD folder with the NEW folder on the backup system.
>
> (something like this)
> # cd /tmp
> # ssh tar clf - /var/spool/postfix | tar xvf -
> # mv var/spool/postfix /backup/path
>
You might want to take a look at hdup.
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