On 5/31/07, Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tracy R Reed wrote:
> Bob La Quey wrote:
>> Mail is not much data. Why not send the increments to S3
>> every few minutes?
>
> You are correct and I have considered this. But I would have to be
> recursing the entire /home looking for changed files. This might take a
> few minutes by itself. It would add a huge amount of disk load.
Polling for changed files isn't necessary. You can use the inotify
(previously fam) mechanism to give you an event when a file changes. See
<http://inotify-tools.sourceforge.net/> for more info.
Isn't mail distributed by a Mail User Agent? There ought to be a way
of tracking what that does, and where the mail gets put. It's not
like you are looking for changes in arbitrary random files.
carl
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