backing up email / saving maildir on external hard drives

[Kevin Laurie]

Dear everyone,
I got it taken care of. Just copied the maildir to a standard FAT drive.
I dont know why I was making it so complicated.
Thanks tho!
Appreciate it.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Götz Reinicke
<goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de> wrote:
>
>> 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