On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, David B Funk wrote:
Sorry, the former. (IE when I convert that 1GB mbx INBOX to mix, I don't
want to end up with another 1GB file, rather a bunch of smaller ones).
So would that mean that it would have to take multiple appends or actually
de-selecting & reselecting the mailbox on a regular basis to make it
produce multiple output files?

The best way would probably be to break up the multiple appends if the destination is mix format, perhaps under a flag. That's a bit of work, but not out of the question. I'll look into it, since I suspect our sysmgt team would like that when we convert our main servers. Thanks.

Hmm, a chunk size of 1MB? That means that those 1GB inboxen will turn into
1000+ 1MB files. Wouldn't 5~10MB be a better compromise between size &
number of files?

It's hard to pick the right number. Our sysmgt folks felt that 10MB was too large for backups. 1MB was maybe a bit too small, but there's not much data yet to say.

The value is MIXDATAROLL in mix.c; currently it is defined as MEGABYTE, but you could easily change it to be (5*MEGABYTE), etc.

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