that's pretty off-topic for this list. better off trying an OSX list.
-Tony
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Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
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"It's not easy bein' green..there's so many colors I'd rather be"
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On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Jim Medley wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am running, quite successfully I will add, sendmail / qpopper on a
> Mac G4 OS 10.2.8. I have about 30 mail clients. What I would like to
> do is backup the mail folder on a daily basis. I use Retrospect and
> usually always get error messages when it backup the mail folder,
> probably because mail boxes are in use. What I have been doing is
> create an archive of the mail folder (tar -cf mail.tar mail), then
> gzip it, then do the backup. I would like to automate this task and I
> was thinking of adding it to the daily job that cron runs. I have
> already made a backup copy of daily. So can anyone tell how to do
> this (or maybe not to do this)?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
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