Re: Backing up mail, cronjob

2000-06-07 Thread Andras BALI
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 07:50:47PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to backup my mail at the beginning of every month with a cronjob, > cataloging it by date and then gzipping. Have a look at my mailrotate script at http://alpha.rulez.org/~drewie/rotatemail.sh It has some useful featu

Re: Backing up mail, cronjob

2000-06-06 Thread Dirk Ruediger
Hi, > I want to backup my mail at the beginning of every month with a cronjob, > <...> > > * 0 1 1-12 * mv /home/deklown/Msgs/backup-inbox > /home/deklown/Msgs/backup-`date +Y-%m` |gzip > > I am not sure what to do after this > > maybe ...|gzip -9 $1 Just take this (all written in ONE line):

Re: Backing up mail, cronjob

2000-06-06 Thread Gary Johnson
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 07:50:47PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to backup my mail at the beginning of every month with a cronjob, > cataloging it by date and then gzipping. I have gzip support for my mail > program to read this as standard mbox files once compressed, however I > just w

Backing up mail, cronjob

2000-06-06 Thread jgh
I want to backup my mail at the beginning of every month with a cronjob, cataloging it by date and then gzipping. I have gzip support for my mail program to read this as standard mbox files once compressed, however I just would like to setup a cron job for this. This is what I have so far... * 0