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 > -Josh More > > > > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Alexandre DELOUP > <[email protected]> wrote: >> A french blogger (@Nicolargo) wrote a how-to to do an automatic and >> incremental backup of your Gmail account. You can find it there : >> http://blog.nicolargo.com/2012/08/sauvegarde-incrementale-et-automatise-de-votre-compte-gmail.html >> . >> In the case of you don't understand french, I could translate it for you ;-) >> >> quack1 >> @_Quack1 >> >> Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are. >> PGP public key ID : 0xA26B95CD >> >> Le 22/10/2012 11:05, Robin Wood a écrit : >>> I've been using gmail/google apps for years and according to their >>> stats I've got over 7G stored in my mailbox. Thinking about all the >>> hacks that have happened where mail spools have been dumped I reckon >>> it would be a good idea to remove a lot of that data, maybe everything >>> beyond 6 months old, but I don't want to delete it, just in case. So I >>> was thinking of setting up some kind of offline backup which I could >>> store encrypted and only open if I ever need to dig back through. >>> >>> I know this can be done manually with IMAP or POP3, pulling down the >>> mails and then deleting them from the server and possibly using GPG to >>> add them to the storage location. But I don't like doing things >>> manually where they can be scripted so I was wondering if anything >>> like this already existed before I start putting something together >>> myself. Anyone know of anything? >>> >>> Robin >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
