On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:21:54 -0500 Rob Owens <row...@ptd.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:12:05PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:05:15 -0500 > > Rob Owens <row...@ptd.net> wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > Another benefit of maildir is if you use a backup program that does file > > > pooling (like BackupPC). Anytime an mbox changes, that's a new file to > > > backup (and usually a big one). With maildir, only the new messages > > > have to be backed up. > > > > But note that rsync based backup solutions do differential file backup, > > so only the changed / added portion of the mbox has to be copied and > > then merged, which mitigates this problem. > > > Yes, rsync will only transfer the changes. But if you are trying to > keep a history of backups (the last 7 daily backups, the last 10 weekly > backups, etc) then you use much more storage if you have mbox. Each > daily backup will hold the complete mbox. Whereas with maildir each > daily backup would only require the additional messages to be stored > (since the rest of the messages are presumably stored in the previous > daily backup).
Fair enough. I actually use MH (and rdiff-backup as well as rsnapshot, two rsync based backup solutions). Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
