Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Sunday 24 June 2007 07:37, Gary Mills wrote: >> For only 30 gigabytes, you might be better off just copying the files >> over, with IMAP down. It could only take a few hours. You can copy >> a sample from the live system to get an idea of the timing. > > You could rsync the mail spool while it is live, take it down and then > rsync again. > > That should save considerable time as I would imagine the vast majority > of email would be unchanged between the first & second copy.
But unfortunately rsync will still have to scan each file to determine what has changed, and that can chew up a lot of time. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
