Admin Backup/Transfer question

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mr.suchy

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Hi,

I have question about system backup. When I create backup with Admin Backup/Transfer in DirectAdmin system copy users file into another folder and then compressed each folder. Everything works fine. But this operation takes twice more space, once for copied files and twice for tar file. Is there any way to reduce space while doing a backup ?

Kind regards!
 
I add:

Code: 
direct_imap_backup=1

Into config file:

Code: 
/usr/local/directadmin/conf/directadmin.conf

Then I restarted a directadmin service:

Code: 
service directadmin  restart

After this few step I create backup witch inculde email account and data. Nothing has changed. I chcek used space when the backup is in progress and after.

Kind regards
 
You won't see any improvements with this option before and after a backup finished. It's used to speed up creating backups and reduce size of temp files which are created during backups. So if you have low disk space with this option you will be able to run backups if you have much disk space used by emails.

This option won't make your users to consume less disk space, as well as it won't make backups of smaller size.
 
Maybe I did something wrong but when I ran backup twice (direct_imap_backup=1 and direct_imap_backup=0) and I don't see any different in used space.
 
Make sure you've got an empty line after newly inserted line, and check with:

Code: 
/usr/local/directadmin/directadmin c | grep [COLOR=#333333]direct_imap_backup=
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