[NBLUG/talk] Mail migration

[Eric Eisenhart]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:29:21AM -0800, Steve wrote:
> I'm dealing with approx. 2500 mail boxes here. rsync seems to be
> slow.. and I owuld have to stop smtp on both boxes while the
> rsyn was running to prevent any problems..

You can run rsync with everything online to get the majority of the data
over, and then stop smtp (and imap and pop3!) on both boxes and run rsync
again; it'll be much quicker the second time around since it'll only have to
transfer the changes.
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Eric Eisenhart
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