On Fri, Jan 05, 2001, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
> The other day I set up automated backups of the most important
> areas of my hard drive. This had been on my todo list for years,
> so I'm pretty happy it's done now. (I already used my backup to
> restore a trivial file I accidentally nuked yesterday.)
Cool!
[..]
> So I wrote a shell script [1] that copies /home/{gerald,cvsroot}
> to un.impressive.net once a week (run from cron on un, using ssh
> with .shosts for auth, which I already had set up for my cvs
> mirroring stuff), then a few more cron jobs on devo for the local
> disk backups:
[..]
Why didn't you use some backup software such as Amanda[4]?
> rsync would be much more efficient if I wasn't using mboxes [2]
> for my mail; maybe I'll switch to maildirs [3] instead sometime.
I didn't know about the maildir format, and it looks pretty cool. I
think that I am going to try and use that. Mutt understand it. I would
have to do some performance tests though.
Did you investigate about getting Procmail to store mail in such a
format?
What about disk space by the way? One file for each email could result
in quite an increase of disk space used.
> (but I don't really care much about efficiency since this stuff
> only runs when I'm sleeping.)
Using fixed times? :-)
> [1]
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2000/12/30/backup-devo
> [2]
http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/mbox.html
> [3]
http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/maildir.html
4.
http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/amanda/
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