Michael Lueck wrote:
A Williams wrote:
Michael Lueck wrote:
One remaining question... is there some command line way to instruct SM
to gracefully exit if possible (no unsaved emails open, etc...)? I would
require that if I am to automate a daily local backup.
That sounds very risky. Why not test for the existence of the SM
lock-file? There has to be a better solution.
I leave SM up "all the time". To do nightly automated backups, I would
have to send SM a message to exit, do the backup, the restart it.
I would check for the mentioned lock-file, and if that still exists,
skip the backup and log the error.
Seems pretty straightforward to me.
Unless you have a VERY slow connection, I see no benefit to leaving SM
up to collect mail while you're in bed. You're not browsing, and you're
not installing software, right? Stock market's probably closed while you
are...
Might as well get in the habit of shutting it down when you shut down
and relaunching when you power yourself up. Costs you a minute to get
mail as you're drinking your hot morning beverage, but you get a full,
reliable backup. And in case SM gets cranky when its cache fills up or
whatever (been known to happen with lots of software), the periodic
slate-cleaning can improve performance.
Tradeoff's worth it to me, YMMV.
Of course, if you were running something like uTorrent, I could see
leaving that on. But that's not what you said, and uTorrent doesn't
require an active browser to run.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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