On 12/11/07 (12:24) PowerMail said: >As with all other backup softwares, making a backup of PowerMail's >database while PowerMail is open (especially with a scheduled >connection) can probably produce a corrupted backup. Additionally, your >entire mail database will be backed up every hour (assuming you have >received at least one message since the previous backup), so if it is >large, it will be slow and use a lot of space on your backup drive, as >Time Machine will keep many versions of the entire database. Also, >PowerMail's own .old backup (done when you compact your database) as >well as the spotlight cache (if spotlight indexing is enabled) are >probably not worth to backup.
Which rather brings us back, full circle, to the point I made a couple of weeks ago: that I find an automated and regular backup strategy is made difficult by Powermail, (and it's insistence upon erasing the recent mail record if the application is closed down -- for backup purposes or any other). -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.9 :: PM 5.5.2 :: 3 pane mode
