VenimK wrote:
> Terry wrote:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Marco B. wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'd like to know if there is a way to make a 'selective' backup in
>>>> Kmail. Explanation: I have way too many e-mails in my kmail client. I'd
>>>> like to backup the older ones, and keep only the most recent ones
>>>> active in kmail. Concretely, my mails are divided in folders. Last year
>>>> mails are in a folder called '2004', which contains some subfolders for
>>>> In and Out. And the same for the previous years.
>>>> I'd like to be able to archive, for example, 2004, 2003, and so on, and
>>>> being able to put them back, in case I need to.
>>>> If it is possible, what files should I backup and which not?
>>>> My mailbox files are in 'maildir' format.
>>>
>>> You can probably graft entire directories under ~/Mail and put them at a
>>> separate location for backup. You can set up a cron job that does this
>>> occasionally and possibly backs up the relevant files. Simply by
>>> coincidence, I wrote about this method earlier this morning:
>>>
>>> http://schestowitz.com/Weblog
>>>
>>> Roy
>> That is what I do. Although, I just manually move the email files to a
>> backup directory. Starting Kmail the next time clears the list and by
>> moving them back to the Kmail location, the emails are restored and
>> readable.
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> echo
> echo "Backup script voor mail"
> # Create a compressed backup of your home directory in a file named
> # backup.tar.gz or backup.tar.bz2 depending on the compression scheme
> # used.
>
>
> BACKUP_DIRS=/media/backup/mail
> BACKUP_FILE=/your/homedir/.kde/share/config/kmailrc
> BACKUP_BOOK=/your/homedir/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml
>
> rm /media/backup/mailbackup/mail.tar.gz
> rm /media/backup/mailbackup/kmailrc.tar.gz
> rm /media/backup/mailbackup/bookmark.tar.gz
> echo
> echo
> echo
> echo "Vorige files verwijderd"
> echo "Previous backup removed"
> echo
> echo
>
> # Uncomment the following line if you want GZipped backups
>
> tar -cvzf /media/backup/mailbackup/mail.tar.gz $BACKUP_DIRS
> tar -cvzf /media/backup/mailbackup/kmailrc.tar.gz $BACKUP_FILE
> tar -cvzf /media/backup/mailbackup/bookmark.tar.gz $BACKUP_BOOK
>
>
> echo "De backup file is aangemaakt"
> echo "Groeten VenimK"
>
>
> put this in cron to run daily or so
Wow. This is excellent mate. Thanks for that...
Roy
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