Hi All, I have a production server that's running our corporate mail (Cyrus-IMAP).
I used to use cpio to archive the mail store, but that's just getting silly now that there's about 40GB that it needs to run through. I tried running rsync in order to backup the data, but as soon as I started running the script the machine came to a grinding halt. I left it running for about 30 minutes while rsync said it was analyzing the file system but the server was un-usable and I was forced to kill it. Is there some way to slow rsync down? I don’t mind if the initial sync takes a day to run, I just dont want it to kill the machine. I was given a suggestion to: Use the -W flag to stop it comparing files byte for byte, don't use checksums and add --progress so you can see what's happening. Which seemed to help, but the machine is still pretty useless when rsync runs. Does anyone have any other ideas? Thanks Warrick -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
