backup without stopping the imap server?

[Lars Kristiansen]

> Have you tried using rsync with:
>
> --size-only             ignore mod time for quick check (use size)
>
> O.
>
> On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 10:37 -0700, Andrew Morgan wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, James Treleaven wrote:
>>
>> > The best idea I have seen is two rsync's: the first while the server
>> is
>> > running and the second (much faster one) with it momentarily stopped.
>>
>> Unfortunately, even rsync can take a very long time.  I'm preparing to
>> migrate to a new Cyrus server and I plan to use rsync.  I've been doing
>> daily rsyncs of the mail spool in preparation for the final rsync while
>> the old server is stopped.  We have about 375GB of mail in 6 million+
>> files, and the rsync process takes about 6 hours.  It's not the size of
>> the data (although the initial rsync did take considerably longer).
>> Just
>> calculating the differences for that many files is a lot of work.  :)

And uses a lot of memory.
rsync slows down when the job gets bigger.
Try to divide it into smaller segments.


>>
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