On 11/11 12:26 , Les Mikesell wrote: > If that's a common problem, you might want to change your mailbox > format to maildir (non-trivial but probably worth it). That will > also make backuppc more efficient since the unchanged files will > all become links in the pool.
maildir format really makes a big difference in how long your backups of a mailserver take... it's a substantial savings. it also improves performance on the mailserver substantially, since it doesn't have to seek to the end of a giant file every time it wants to write something. The downside is that maildir eats more space on your mailserver (just due to filesystem overhead, since you're storing 1000s of little files instead of one big one). Reiserfs tail packing may help with that, tho at the cost of a little performance. There may be performance gains or penalties as well, depending on what operations you're doing on your mailbox. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
