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Re: Backup of an courier-imap mailarchive



Hi Mike

On 26 May 2008, Mike Bird wrote:
> > This is already done but there are 4 "archive" user which hold over 90%
> > of the whole Mailstorage...
> We have a lot of daily rsyncs, one of them 360GB, and they only
> take a few minutes unless a lot has changed.  Could this be an
> ext3 filesystem built long ago without dir_index?

The problem is not the size in terms of GB's, but the number of files.
I have the same problem here with a file system containing millions of
very small files. rsync takes ages, even with dir_index activated. Even
though I don't really like it, I found that using reiserfs made quite a
difference for me.

Regards

Oliver

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