Best way to move large Maildir to another machine?

Dave Woodfall dave at tty1.uk
Thu Nov 26 02:29:24 UTC 2020


Thanks for the replies.

On 26/11/20 10:38,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> put forth the proposition:
> I'd expect rsync to be faster than scp, and personally I'd use "cd
> the-mailddir; tar cf
> - . | ssh remote 'cd remote-maildir; tar xf -'" which should be much
>   faster than either.

Very interesting idea...  I'll try it out tomorrow.

Cheers,

--
Dave

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