Re: PST Rsync Issues

2008-03-05 Thread dfirth
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Re: PST Rsync Issues

2008-03-03 Thread Charles Marcus
On 3/3/2008, Jason Haar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Basically PST (and OST) files don't play nicely with differential copy tools. They also get very unstable the closer to 2GB in size you get... I'd never let a PST file get over about 500MB - had too many problems when I did (don't use it any

Re: PST Rsync Issues

2008-03-03 Thread Jason Haar
Jon Watson wrote: I'm curious if PSTs are just un-rsyncable due to their makeup or if there is something I can do to pare down this transfer and subsequent storage. Any tips or ideas are welcome. Outlook PST files are effectively database files. They can be optionally compressed and encrypt

PST Rsync Issues

2008-03-03 Thread Jon Watson
Hi All, I have a 1.8GB PST file that is backed up every night from a cygwin install) and every night rsync transfers about 1.8GB of data for that file. It changes a bit, but for all intents and purposes the entire file is transferred. There are other files on this system that rsync more typically,