[kdepim-users] how to synchronize kmail2 etc. between two machines?

Pablo Sanchez pablo at blueoakdb.com
Wed Nov 23 12:52:43 GMT 2011


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On Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 04:36 AM, Andras Mantia penned
about Re: [kdepim-users] how to synchronize kmail2 etc. between two machines?

Hi Andras,

> > Does anyone have any information on how to synchronize two
> > machines with akonadi in the mix?  I only wish to apply the deltas
> > and not re-create the entire akonadi database every time.
> 
> I just sync the maildir folders, the (local) addressbook, kmail
> configuration (not the akonadi config and database!). 

Did it work?  :)

Luckily, I don't use IMAP.  Just POP3.

> In theory you could sync the whole database file and configuration,
> but you have to make sure the akonadi server is shut down on both
> source and target machines before synchronization. I never tried it,
> so cannot guarantee the success.

As a DB person, I know the perils of trying to synchronize a
database.  :)

> Yes, initial import is long and will take a lot of memory (in case
> the memory usage doesn't go down after import, you can restart the
> server).

Ah, that explains why I'm swapping - which of course leads to slow
decay in conversion speed.

Luckily it's relatively easy for me to divide the e-mail folders into
smaller more manageable chunks.  I'll try import them in 20K units
That seems to be an okay size.  Although I wonder if it's more
allocation than sheer number ...

Cheers,
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Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc
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