powermail-discuss Digest #2730 - Saturday, November 10, 2007
Time Machine and Powermail
by "Paul Collett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Time Machine and Powermail
by "Geoff Roynon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Time Machine and Powermail
by "Peter Lovell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Time Machine and Powermail
From: "Paul Collett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:35:34 +0900
Is anyone using Time Machine with Leopard? How do you find the backups
work if you have your Powermail folder included?
I was finding the hourly backups were taking forever - in most cases,
well over an hour if they even got completed, and generally slowing down
my computer. After playing around with including and excluding different
folders it seems Powermail was slowing things down the most; excluding
the entire Powermail folder from the backup set means Time Machine is
now working as advertised. Unfortunately at the expense of getting
hourly backups of my mail.
I'm very interested to hear any other experiences here, especially if
people are getting successful and fast backups of their mail.
Paul Collett
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Subject: Re: Time Machine and Powermail
From: "Geoff Roynon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:18:22 +0000
On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:35:34 +0900 Paul Collett said:
>Is anyone using Time Machine with Leopard? How do you find the backups
>work if you have your Powermail folder included?
>
>I was finding the hourly backups were taking forever - in most cases,
>well over an hour if they even got completed, and generally slowing down
>my computer. After playing around with including and excluding different
>folders it seems Powermail was slowing things down the most; excluding
>the entire Powermail folder from the backup set means Time Machine is
>now working as advertised. Unfortunately at the expense of getting
>hourly backups of my mail.
>
>I'm very interested to hear any other experiences here, especially if
>people are getting successful and fast backups of their mail.
>
>Paul Collett
>
>
I am using Time Machine with Leopard and the hourly backups take less
than a minute to complete. I am running PowerMail 24 hours a day. The
only folder I have excluded from the backup in my Boinc folder as I
don't care if that gets lost.
I think you have something else wrong - have you checked your system and
console logs for errors?
Geoff
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Using PowerMail 5.5.3 (SpamSieve 2.6.4) on a G5 dual 1.8MHz, 3 GB RAM,
under MacOSX 10.5
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Subject: Re: Time Machine and Powermail
From: "Peter Lovell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:03:34 -0500
On Nov 10, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Paul Collett wrote:
> Is anyone using Time Machine with Leopard? How do you find the
> backups
> work if you have your Powermail folder included?
>
> I was finding the hourly backups were taking forever - in most cases,
> well over an hour if they even got completed, and generally slowing
> down
> my computer. After playing around with including and excluding
> different
> folders it seems Powermail was slowing things down the most; excluding
> the entire Powermail folder from the backup set means Time Machine is
> now working as advertised. Unfortunately at the expense of getting
> hourly backups of my mail.
>
> I'm very interested to hear any other experiences here, especially if
> people are getting successful and fast backups of their mail.
>
> Paul Collett
>
>
>
I have asked about this exact issue several times and have never
received any answer. The PowerMail "Message Database" is a single
file and any change to that means that it's backed up. Same for some
of the files in the index.
Being TM-friendly would mean an extensive rewrite of the database
mechanism, and I haven't heard any suggestion about that.
Regards.....Peter
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