some rdbms systems have the ability to snapshot the database and do a
hot backup of the database. while that specifically does not answer the
question of how to backup, if you stored all your email in the database
somehow, you would be able to take advantage of the rdbms facilities for
hot backup and not have to reinvent the wheel.
shag
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tracy R Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thu 4 May 2000 9:02
Subject: Re: Backing up HUGE Maildir systems
> On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 01:14:25AM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> > Anyone have any tips on how to effeciently backup Maildir systems
with millions
> > of files? I am pondering switching the company mail server over to
Maildir.
> > It's a very large and busy system. We have had situations before
where there
> > were millions of files to be backed up which took many days or
perhaps even
>
> Above and beyond the comments of the other people wrt whether it's
worth backing
> up in this way, I'm told that something like the dump command may more
efficiently
> deal with large numbers of small files because it forks off multiple
processes rather
> than serializes as other products/programs may do.
>
> Then again, many millions of file system lookup are probably going to
hose
> your system for a long long time.
>
>
> Regards.
>
