[Dovecot] Great time savings backing a mdbox versus Maildir
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Tue Feb 8 19:11:53 EET 2011
On 8.2.2011, at 9.42, Javier Miguel Rodríguez wrote:
> I am writing to this mailing list to thanks Timo for dovecot 2 & mdbox. We have almost 30.000 active users and our life was sad with Maildir & backup: 24 hours for a full backup with bacula (zlib enabled maildirs, 1.4 TB). After switching to mdbox, the backup time is under 12 hours ! Instead of backing 17 millions files, with mdbox our backup is only of 1 million files, and that speeds up a lot the backup operation.
Hmm. I guess if you were doing backups 24h/day, then you can't really say how much faster mdbox performs than maildir (outside backups)?
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