On 22 October 2012 15:41, Josh More <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 22 October 2012 13:55, Josh More <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I use getmail: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ >>> >>> You have to run it in a loop, as Google limits the number of messages >>> you can pull at a time to around 100. (Sometimes it's 80ish, >>> sometimes it's 120ish). >>> >>> I generally find that running: "for i in {1..20}; do getmail -r >>> ~/.getmail/getmail.gmail; sleep 120; done" is sufficient for my >>> backups every few weeks. >>> >>> I'm sure you could script this in a better way so it automatically >>> stops when there's no more mail to get. Lazy script just uses a loop. >>> :) >> >> >> That will take a while then to pull down almost 7G of mails (over 4+ >> years of data). Maybe not a practical option after all. >> >> Robin > > > Yes, it will. I'd do it anyway, as any backup of 7Gb is going to take > a while and, once done, will be fairly easy to maintain.
That is what I figured, the first backup would be the longest but will be a lot longer than I expected. Robin > -Josh More > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
