On Wednesday 29 of October 2008, Dave McGuire wrote: > On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > >> What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a > >> user's mail? > > > > I usually just rsync the /home directories to another server. The > > inital sync > > can take a while, but it gets faster after there is a base to work > > from. > > ...and it's much less painful if you're using maildir instead of > mbox!
Not for rsyncing. Tons of small files means much slower rsync. > -Dave -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/
