backing up email / saving maildir on external hard drives
Götz Reinicke
goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de
Tue Aug 11 16:32:02 UTC 2015
> Am 11.08.2015 um 17:56 schrieb Christian Schmidt <Christian.Schmidt at chemie.uni-hamburg.de>:
>
> On 11.08.2015 15:45, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote:
>> talking of rsync and compression is may be also a bit misleading.
>>
>> On the destination there will be no compressed files if you transfer
>> with rsync!
>
> ...unless your dovecot is working with compressed maildir files. ;-)
>
I was talking about the rsync file transfer, which will not compress the output on the backup server…. not about anything dovecote has configured … may be uhh he uses a filesystem compression too ? Or some rsync piping trough gzip?
kidding :)
/Götz
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