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<p dir="auto">On 8 Oct 2016, at 17:44, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:</p>
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<div style="white-space:pre-wrap"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><div dir="auto">I exclude Database.noindex from my Time Machine dumps or backups take far too long. When I had to restore one of my computers from backup, the lack of that directory meant that it had to refetch lots of mail. OK, fine -- but it seemed to lose track of the files that were there; as a result, Library/Application Support/MailMate was more than twice as large as on the machine next to it. That isn't a trivial problem for me; I'm taking about 45 GB versus 112 GB... (Right now, I'm deleting the MailMate directory; I'll copy over the 45 GB one when that's done.)
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<p dir="auto">It is correct that MailMate fails to detect this type of corrupt database. If you don't backup <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">Database.noindex</code> (which I actually agree is a good idea) then you might also want to leave out <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">Messages(.noindex)</code> since that's the other part of the database. The IMAP server is kind of the backup, but I can see why you might want a local backup too.</p>
<p dir="auto">I guess MailMate should try to automatically detect this kind of state. I'll give that some thought since I would like to recommend leaving out <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">Database.noindex</code> from backups. Hmm, maybe even do that by default. A general problem is that Time Machine will some times back up files in an order which leaves the backed up database in a corrupted state.</p>
<p dir="auto">-- <br>
Benny</p>
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