Have you considered using my suggestion (private email reply) of trying Subversion (SVN) to manage the binary diffs and to attain a "proper" version management system at the same time?

Just curious...

-Jeff


John S. Bucy wrote:

Here's some preliminary data. I'm running the following against my mail volume hourly:

VOL='mail.bucy'
mv $VOL $VOL.old && \
vos backup $VOL && \
vos dump $VOL.backup -file $VOL && \
rdiff delta $VOL.sig $VOL $VOL-delta-`date +%Y%m%d.%H%M` &&
rdiff sig $VOL $VOL.sig && \
rm $VOL.old

Here's what's coming out:

36M mail.bucy
960K mail.bucy-delta-20050201
20K mail.bucy-delta-20050201.1558
108K mail.bucy-delta-20050201.1711
100K mail.bucy-delta-20050201.1818
96K mail.bucy-delta-20050201.1918
140K mail.bucy-delta-20050201.2018
56K mail.bucy-delta-20050201.2118
72K mail.bucy-delta-20050201.2218
96K mail.bucy-delta-20050201.2318
68K mail.bucy-delta-20050202.0018
88K mail.bucy-delta-20050202.0118
80K mail.bucy-delta-20050202.0218
36K mail.bucy-delta-20050202.0318
92K mail.bucy-delta-20050202.0418
88K mail.bucy-delta-20050202.0518
88K mail.bucy-delta-20050202.0618
124K mail.bucy-delta-20050202.0718
68K mail.bucy-delta-20050202.0818
100K mail.bucy-delta-20050202.0918
132K mail.bucy-delta-20050202.1018
120K mail.bucy-delta-20050202.1118
208K mail.bucy-delta-20050202.1218
68K mail.bucy-delta-20050202.1318
72K mail.bucy-delta-20050202.1418
212K mail.bucy.sig


This is all maildir so the traffic is going to be mostly creates, renames and deletes -- few appends/updates. Nevertheless, the deltas are pretty small...




john
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