Christian Schmidt
2015-Aug-11 15:56 UTC
backing up email / saving maildir on external hard drives
On 11.08.2015 15:45, G?tz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote:> talking of rsync and compression is may be also a bit misleading. > > On the destination there will be no compressed files if you transfer > with rsync!...unless your dovecot is working with compressed maildir files. ;-) Kind Regards, Christian Schmidt -- No signature available. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 5306 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20150811/08459bbb/attachment.p7s>
Götz Reinicke
2015-Aug-11 16:32 UTC
backing up email / saving maildir on external hard drives
> Am 11.08.2015 um 17:56 schrieb Christian Schmidt <Christian.Schmidt at chemie.uni-hamburg.de>: > > On 11.08.2015 15:45, G?tz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote: >> talking of rsync and compression is may be also a bit misleading. >> >> On the destination there will be no compressed files if you transfer >> with rsync! > > ...unless your dovecot is working with compressed maildir files. ;-) >I was talking about the rsync file transfer, which will not compress the output on the backup server?. not about anything dovecote has configured ? may be uhh he uses a filesystem compression too ? Or some rsync piping trough gzip? kidding :) /G?tz
Kevin Laurie
2015-Aug-15 05:54 UTC
backing up email / saving maildir on external hard drives
Dear everyone, I got it taken care of. Just copied the maildir to a standard FAT drive. I dont know why I was making it so complicated. Thanks tho! Appreciate it. On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:32 AM, G?tz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de> wrote:> >> Am 11.08.2015 um 17:56 schrieb Christian Schmidt <Christian.Schmidt at chemie.uni-hamburg.de>: >> >> On 11.08.2015 15:45, G?tz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote: >>> talking of rsync and compression is may be also a bit misleading. >>> >>> On the destination there will be no compressed files if you transfer >>> with rsync! >> >> ...unless your dovecot is working with compressed maildir files. ;-) >> > > I was talking about the rsync file transfer, which will not compress the output on the backup server?. not about anything dovecote has configured ? may be uhh he uses a filesystem compression too ? Or some rsync piping trough gzip? > > kidding :) > > /G?tz