[clue-tech] CLUE Talk Mailing list mbox file too big to rsynch

[Angelo Bertolli]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Jed S. Baer <cluemail at jbaer.cotse.net>wrote:

> Hi Folks.
>
> I've been doing a nightly rsynch of all crucial CLUE data and config
> files. This has worked fine for a backup for a couple years now, but I've
> hit a snag.
>
> The /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/clue-talk/ directory and the
> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/clue-talk.mbox/clue-talk.mbox file are
> now both too large for rsync.
>
> The CLUE-Talk mbox file is over 31MB. Yes, it really does contain every
> message ever sent to CLUE-Talk.



I'm guessing you mean it just takes too long and this is an older system?  I
use rsync on much much bigger files just fine.

The problem with rsyncing an ever-growing mbox is that it always needs to be
copied since it will always be different.  rdiff-backup may not be an
improvement because it still has to do the diff of the whole file.  If it
were me, I'd try my luck with either splitting the mbox file into year
files, or just using cp -a

Angelo
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