Re: [ilugd] /var/spool/mail backup

[vivek]

Sohel Shaheen Mallik wrote:
user having individual files storing all their mails ... now you could
have simply issued a tar -c mail > mail.tar from the /var/spool
directory and then a gzip -9 mail.tar  ,,, next time if yu go for a
a little faster method would be

for gzip compression
    tar -zcf mail_backup.tar.gz /var/spool/mail
for bzip2 compression
    tar -jcf mail_backup.tar.bz2 /var/spool/mail
instead of mail_backup.tar.xx yu can specify the full path where yu want 
the tar to be stored, for e.g.

    tar -jcf /home/backup/07Aug03/mail_backup.tar.bz2 /var/spool/mail

put this in a cron job, and your mails will be backed up according to 
the time yu specify automatically.

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