Not strictly in response to your problem but take a look at this: <http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/29/leopard-should-you-upgrade/>
Carl On Saturday, November 10, 2007 Peter Lovell wrote: > >On Nov 10, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Paul Collett wrote: > >> Is anyone using Time Machine with Leopard? How do you find the >> backups >> work if you have your Powermail folder included? >> >> I was finding the hourly backups were taking forever - in most cases, >> well over an hour if they even got completed, and generally slowing >> down >> my computer. After playing around with including and excluding >> different >> folders it seems Powermail was slowing things down the most; excluding >> the entire Powermail folder from the backup set means Time Machine is >> now working as advertised. Unfortunately at the expense of getting >> hourly backups of my mail. >> >> I'm very interested to hear any other experiences here, especially if >> people are getting successful and fast backups of their mail. >> >> Paul Collett >> >> >> > > >I have asked about this exact issue several times and have never >received any answer. The PowerMail "Message Database" is a single >file and any change to that means that it's backed up. Same for some >of the files in the index. > >Being TM-friendly would mean an extensive rewrite of the database >mechanism, and I haven't heard any suggestion about that. > >Regards.....Peter >
