Notmuch and backups

Subject: Notmuch and backups

Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2021 10:40:29 -0800

To: David Bremner, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Matt Armstrong

David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

[...]

> +    case NOTMUCH_CONFIG_BACKUP_DIR:
> +	return "database.backup_dir";

[...]

David, your recent changes that allow configurable separation of the
mail store and .notmuch files look like good ideas to me.

Separately, I've recently set up backups of my system and noticed that
the Xapian files are an order of magnitude larger than the notmuch dumps
(3.6 GiB vs. 15 MiB).  Is there any turn key code in notmuch itself to
keep a rolling set of "recent" notmuch dumps?

Alternatively, have folks contributed any such thing?

Failing everything, I can roll my own with cron and maybe logrotate or
something similar.  I thought I'd ask before going that way.
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  • David Bremner—[PATCH 02/21] lib: save path of xapian database in notmuch struct. [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
  • David Bremner—[PATCH 03/21] lib: support reopening databases for write access. [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
  • David Bremner—[PATCH 04/21] CLI/show: complete conversion to new configuration framework. [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
  • David Bremner—[PATCH 05/21] lib/open: support NOTMUCH_DATABASE environment variable [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
  • David Bremner—[PATCH 06/21] lib/open: allocate notmuch_t struct early [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
  • David Bremner—[PATCH 07/21] lib: remove "path" from notmuch struct [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
  • David Bremner—[PATCH 08/21] lib/open: factor out library initialization [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
  • David Bremner—[PATCH 09/21] lib/open: reuse directory checks from n_d_c_with_config [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
  • David Bremner—[PATCH 10/21] lib/open: factor out the second half of n_d_open_with_config [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
  • David Bremner—[PATCH 11/21] lib/open: use _finish_open in n_d_create_with_config [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
  • David Bremner—[PATCH 12/21] lib/open: Use check for existing database by trial opening [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
  • David Bremner—[PATCH 13/21] support splitting mail from database location. [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
  • David Bremner—[PATCH 14/21] lib/open: check for split configuration when creating database. [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
  • David Bremner—[PATCH 15/21] CLI/new: support split database and mail location [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
  • David Bremner—[PATCH 16/21] lib/open: support XDG_DATA_HOME as a fallback database location. [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
  • David Bremner—[PATCH 17/21] CLI/insert: support split database and mail root [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
  • David Bremner—[PATCH 18/21] lib/compact: enable split config [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
  • David Bremner—[PATCH 19/21] lib/open: fix hook directory calculation in split configuration [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
  • David Bremner—[PATCH 20/21] lib/config: add configuration variable for backup directory [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
  • David Bremner—[PATCH 21/21] CLI/new: use configuration variable for backup directory [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
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