From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 10 03:03:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F4E16A420 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 03:03:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from on@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C1343D45 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 03:03:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from on@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (banyan.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.5]) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k1A33eb4091561 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:03:41 +0700 (ICT) Received: (from on@localhost) by banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (8.13.1/8.12.11) id k1A33eCe039173; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:03:40 +0700 (ICT) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:03:40 +0700 (ICT) Message-Id: <200602100303.k1A33eCe039173@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> From: Olivier Nicole To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <44lkwkxv7k.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> (message from Lowell Gilbert on 09 Feb 2006 13:06:55 -0500) References: <200602090700.k1970DiJ095554@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <18e02bd30602090026h2e297677sc6742cbb653aede5@mail.gmail.com> <200602090910.k199AKB6011124@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <44irrozl0q.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <65064.64.81.51.215.1139504956.squirrel@www.astrokid.com> <44lkwkxv7k.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> X-Virus-Scanned: on CSIM by amavisd-milter (http://www.amavis.org/) Subject: Re: Mail back-up system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 03:03:43 -0000 > > Since every mail is stored in its own file (versus concatenation in Mbox), > > it's much cheaper to backup. Just copy all the new/touched files, not all > > your mail. > Yes, that's a good point. Because these files are *already* backups, > I assumed that they wouldn't be backed up themselves, but that may > well not be the case. Actually, as I have an Amanda server floating around, I also do tape archive of the back-up :)) Olivier