What if backup programs let you designate certain files as "Append Only" so they'd backup only the part of a file that had been appended to the end of the file since the last backup? Next version? Brady > Greetings! > > Mailing list dictator here <dramatic pause for effect>. > > The tclug archives (well all the mailing list archives on list server) have > grown large enough -and- the tclug list (and all other other lists) are busy > enough that it's becoming difficult to get a clean backup of the archives. > > Technical sideline: Mailman is kind of dorky, it stores all the archives in mbox > format. Yes, 1 huge-ass file. So, I'm in the middle of backing up this 1.0Gb > (yes, that is the size of some of the archives) a new message comes in and it > gets append to the mbox file. Oops! BRU freaks on the check because the file > changed from the time it started to write the file to tape until the time it > finished writing the file to tape. > > So, I'm going to suspend processing mail message from 3am - 5am. The backup > kicks off at 3:02am and has been finishing around 4:45am. This should give us a > clean backup. > > Mailing list dictator signing off <dramatic pause> > > -- > Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 > http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 > Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9 > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >