On or near 4/22/04 3:28 PM, Sonja Ray at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > > You're nearly as bad as I am. I also leave mail on the server for a couple > days, and run my Retrospect backup almost daily, or every other day at a > minimum. On top of that, I'm so paranoid about the Entourage database, I > have a cron script running that makes a zipped-up copy of the whole MUD > folder, appends the date to the end of the name, and places it in the > "Users" folder just above my home folder, every morning at 5:30 a.m. If my > database should ever get corrupted beyond repair, I can just unzip that > morning's cron result, collect my e-mails from the server again, and I'm > back in business in about 5 minutes. > I'd like to see that script, also.
> With the date appended to the name, the new backup doesn't overwrite > previous backups, so every few days I delete all the zipped backups except > the latest one, so that they don't pile up. > You could automate this also, with AppleScript and folder actions. A script that would find files whose names contain "MUD backup" (or whatever) and delete the oldest one could be set up to run each time a new file is created in the folder; you could set it so it counts the files and only deletes if there are at least four versions. Setting up folder actions for a folder is easy using the contextual menu in Finder. I'll throw together a sample script later today. > I also use the zipped backup to transfer my MUD easily from desktop to > laptop periodically. Makes it easy to keep rules, sigs, accounts, etc., > synced on the laptop. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
