What if backup programs let you designate certain files as "Append Only"
so they'd backup only the part of a file that had been appended to the
end of the file since the last backup?

Next version?

Brady

> Greetings!
> 
> Mailing list dictator here <dramatic pause for effect>.
> 
> The tclug archives (well all the mailing list archives on list server) have
> grown large enough -and- the tclug list (and all other other lists) are busy
> enough that it's becoming difficult to get a clean backup of the archives.
> 
> Technical sideline: Mailman is kind of dorky, it stores all the archives in mbox
> format. Yes, 1 huge-ass file. So, I'm in the middle of backing up this 1.0Gb
> (yes, that is the size of some of the archives) a new message comes in and it
> gets append to the mbox file. Oops! BRU freaks on the check because the file
> changed from the time it started to write the file to tape until the time it
> finished writing the file to tape.
> 
> So, I'm going to suspend processing mail message from 3am - 5am. The backup
> kicks off at 3:02am and has been finishing around 4:45am. This should give us a
> clean backup.
> 
> Mailing list dictator signing off <dramatic pause>
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