Thanks Vivek, thats sure going to cut the job a little faster !!
vivek wrote:
>
> 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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