[MlMt] MailMate and Time Machine

Charlie Clark charlie at begeistert.org
Thu Oct 22 08:01:30 EDT 2020


On 22 Oct 2020, at 4:20, Glenn Parker wrote:

> I exclude ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Database.noindex from 
> my Time Machine backups. It makes a real difference (measured using 
> *BackupLoupe 2*).

Sounds reasonable: the index will change a lot and, as a binary file, 
can't be diffed so will have to be copied with every backup.

Otherwise, as Bill has said, backups/transfers always need some 
housekeeping time to count, stat (and possibly make hashes) of all the 
the files.

Charlie Clark

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