Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup for email

[Keith Edmunds]

On 11/11/2006 1:05:53 AM +0000
"Ty! Boyack" <address@hidden> said:

> As you can expect, it doesn't like it if you start 
> backing up a (source) mailbox, and before it can finish doing all the 
> reverse-diff/update of the (backup) mailbox you let the mail server 
> stuff another message into the (source) mailbox.  I speak from the 
> experience of mbox formatted mail - I don't know if other formats would 
> have quite the same issues.

Maildir - which uses a separate file for each mail message - fares
better under those circumstances.

Keith