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Re: shell cript deleting backups



Alvin Oga <aoga@mail.Linux-Consulting.com> 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

mess-mate                               
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