Questions around moving from 2.2.12 to 2.4.12

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 03/06/2012 11:43 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 06.03.2012 15:06, schrieb Reinaldo de Carvalho:
>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger<lists at xunil.at>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Wouldn't that mean that I overwrite stuff with older files?
>>>
>>> rsync -av  .... without "--delete", correct?
>>>
>>
>> Don't forget -H to keep hard links from single instance store. Else
>> destination disk usage will increase.
>
> The mentioned howto
>
> http://cynici.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/how-to-migrate-32-bit-cyrus-imapd-mailboxes-to-64-bit/
>
> uses "-aP" ...   so you recommend "-aPH" ?
>
> I don't care much about disk usage, and my tests didn't show significant
> increase. I haven't set any hard links there by myself, does cyrus
> itself use them?


Yes. With single instance store if 10 people receive the same e-mail it 
is only stored once on the filesystem and the other 9 are hardlinked to 
the file.







>
> Thanks, Stefan (ps: in 2hrs I will switch over things ... *sigh* )
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