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Re: Backup of an courier-imap mailarchive



Hello Maarten,

Am 2008-05-25 20:41:03, schrieb Maarten Vink:
> Rsync tends to use a lot of memory for larger filesystems because it  
> loads the entire filesystem tree in memory before connecting to the  
> destination host. There are two ways to fix this:
> 
> 1) Build a script that splits up the backup in several rsync runs, for  
> example by starting rsync for each user instead of the entire mailspool

This is already done but there are 4 "archive" user which hold over 90%
of the whole Mailstorage...

> 2) Try rsync 3.0; it has a "quickstart" mode that starts synchronizing  
> files before the entire filesystem is read, saving huge amounts of  
> memory. Rsync 3 is available in the backports collection.

Thanks for the info, I will give it a try...

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack

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