Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, mess-mate wrote: | | > Hi, | > i backup my maildir directory every 3 days with 'konserve' ( kde | > backup utility) | > I've to delete manually older backups of these. | > The backup file look like this: Maildir-20050605182810.tar.gz | | if your saving every 3 days.. why are you using time in the filename | | save it as | | /backup/mon | /backup/tue | /backup/wed | | and you'd have 7 day rotations of old emails that will be overwritten | | or use /backup/1 /backup/2 /backup/3 /backup/4 ... /backup/30 | and you'd ahve 30 day rotations of old emails that will be overwritten | | --- | | the emails you want to save is already saved in your mail folders | and you can delete the spool .. unless you're using imap | | if you are saving your emails and keeping only for 3 days or saving every | 3 days .. one day you will need to recover prevous emails from last week | or last month, and you won't have it if you delete important emails | | - important emails goes into "important folder" | | - mailing list emails gets deleted upon reading and is | already archived all over the world | Yes, it's a maildir++ format.(courier-imap) But can't save as /backup/mon, etc.. There is nochoice about the backup name except the primairy name = 'Maildir', with konserve. 'Maildir' is directory ( ~/Maildir/INBOX.debian ) I'm looking for a simple backup package independant of KDE. If you have a hint .... :) Founded kbackup but not what i need. Thanks for your help
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