On Thu, June 29, 2006 11:41 am, Brad Camroux wrote: > Hey, > > > Does anyone have a script for doing monthly backups of maildirs? > I'd like to put all mail from, say, April, into a folder called > April06, or something to that effect. Of course this would be > ideally run as a cron job. > > Thanks, > > > Brad
The one-liner I use in my crontab is this: tar cvjf mail-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.bz2 ~/.maildir it creates an archive called YYYYmmDD.tar.bz2 of my mail. You can change the date format if you wanted, see man date for the full list. Jamie _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
