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bobman
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| Posted: 17 July 2010 at 10:53pm | IP Logged
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Any suggestions on the best way to backup Thunderbird
mailbox files?
My (non-technical) wife is complaining that her machine
is 'slow' because of BB. When I investigate, it is
because BB is trying to diff her many, large mailbox
files.
She can pause BB, but then forgets to resume it.
I can think of a few possibilities:
1. external program that periodically copies the mailbox
files to a backed-up directory
2. new option in BB to backup certain directories on a
schedule instead of continuously (probably lots of work)
3. improvement on the existing functionality to not try
to backup/diff files (at least large ones) if the machine
is actively being used.
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John
Buddy Backup Team
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This has been a long running feature request :)
(Well Outlook PST support, but it's basically the same problem).
What we really need to do is treat these cases as special cases - i.e. as you say they should be scheduled backups instead of "continous".
We did add a feature to "throttle" how often we snapshotted large files. It is supposed to "back-off" large files which change regularly, but this is a bit of a sticking plaster.
In the meantime option 1 is definitely viable. I'll be dissapointed though if you have to get ANOTHER program to make the copy first.
Oh, just one final thought: please make sure that you have local backups turned ON for these thunderbird files (See here). If local backups are OFF then every time the file changes BuddyBackup will dumbly copy the WHOLE FILE. If local backups are on, then BuddyBackup can copy just the changes. Worth checking that.
I'll keep you posted on this issue.
John
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