> Am 11.08.2015 um 17:56 schrieb Christian Schmidt > <christian.schm...@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