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. -Josh More _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
