Re: Methods for archiving e-mail

2012-04-22 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 15:30, Sean Whitton wrote: > Maybe rsync for that, then bup to back it up, is the best > option. Sounds like reinventing git-annex, to me. Richard ___ vcs-home mailing list vcs-home@lists.madduck.net http://lists.madduck.net/l

Re: Methods for archiving e-mail

2012-04-21 Thread Joey Hess
Sean Whitton wrote: > I was taking a look at how git-annex handles modifying files, which I > haven’t used before; would this actually work well—wouldn’t you need > to use be continually using git annex unused and pulling in new > versions on the file on your other machines? I'd just add one mailb

Re: Methods for archiving e-mail

2012-04-21 Thread Sean Whitton
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 02:22:11PM +0200, Valodim Skywalker wrote: > Sounds like a job for bup. Have you considered that? > > https://github.com/apenwarr/bup The problem is that I want to be able to keep the mail archive synced on two local non-backup machines, as well as remotely in some kind of

Re: Methods for archiving e-mail

2012-04-21 Thread Valodim Skywalker
Sounds like a job for bup. Have you considered that? https://github.com/apenwarr/bup - V signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ vcs-home mailing list vcs-home@lists.madduck.net http://lists.madduck.net/listinfo/vcs-home

Re: Methods for archiving e-mail

2012-04-21 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 05:12:26PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I archive my mail to compressed mboxes, one per month. If I used maildir > it'd flirt with running out of inodes or exceeding the number of files > git can comfortably scale to. And it would probably waste rather a lot > of space.

Re: Methods for archiving e-mail

2012-04-20 Thread Joey Hess
Sean Whitton wrote: > 2) I currently split my e-mail into my current inbox and folders, a > few hundred megabytes, and 5GB of archives removed by the archivemail > script. It would be much more useful to have my archives stored > locally, for easier searching, backed up to S3 somehow. Anyone got