[wellylug] Backing up maildirs

[Richard Hector]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 11:24:00PM +1200, Ewen McNeill wrote:
> In message <20030824111940.GD15558 at fake>, Richard Hector writes:
> >Though it still seems useful to keep the creation times of the messages in
> >the Maildir (ie the delivery time), which the conversion to mbox would
> >presumably lose. Or does mbox format save the info somewhere else that could
> >be recovered?
> 
> Probably depends on the maildir conversion tools; it could, eg, save it
> in the (envelope/start-of-mbox-message) From header.
> 
> If it matters, tar, etc, could probably achieve the same job (making one
> big file to transfer).

True - though rsync is all in one command, and I now that I know it, it's
faster (to type) than remembering how to pipe 2 tars together, especially
over the network. And for Jamie's 10MB, over a local LAN, I'm not sure it
really matters how long that takes ...

I guess in the end, as usual, it comes down to personal preference and what
you know :-)

Richard