On Wed, 24 May 2006, D Canfield wrote:
I'm just curious how other users are backing up maildirs using bacula. We're using cyrus as our mail server, so we've got about 162GB of data stored in 4.4 million files, or an average of 37K per message. Most other products I've tried (both commercial and open source) have not been too happy with this arrangement and end up requiring vast amounts of disk space and overhead to index this kind of mail spool.
I have similar numbers of similar sized files backed up as part of astronomical data.
Backing up is easy. Restoratation takes a while because of index generation, but the actual restore process is quick.
Does anyone know if bacula is any better with this? If not, I'm thinking my best resort would be to have each user's mail spool gzipped before backing it up
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