[MlMt] Database.noindex

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Sat Oct 8 11:44:37 EDT 2016


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.)




         --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb




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