On 4/26/2016 4:05 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:53:52 -0700 > Paul Mullen <p...@nellump.net> dijo: > >> This is a job for rsync, anyhow. The following command should do >> exactly what you want: >> >> rsync -avx /home/jjj/Mail/ /media/jjj/Data/Mail >> >> Don't remove the trailing slash on the source path. It tells rsync to >> copy the contents of /home/jjj/Mail to /media/jjj/Data/Mail/, as >> opposed to creating a new Mail dir under /media/jjj/Data/Mail/ (i.e., >> /media/jjj/Data/Mail/Mail). The rsync man page has more details under >> the "Usage" section. >> >> rsync has a dry run mode that will show you the changes it would >> normally perform without actually making any. Just add the "-n" >> option to the command line. > I thought of rsync too, but the advice from the Claws-Mail listserve > included the cp command, so that's what I used. I suspect the reason for this is that rsync(1) will first scan the folder hierarchy being copied, and then begin the data transfer. If anything changes between the initial scan and before rsync(1) is finished copying, you will get "diagnostic" messages.
> > The above command works, except that it does not remove mails from the > backup that have been deleted from the source. > > I have a couple dozen folders where I store mails that I want to save. > However, I leave mail in the Inbox until the thread has exhausted > itself, and then, if I think I want to save the thread for future > reference, I move it manually to one of my storage folders. If I don't > want to save it I just delete the mails from my Inbox. Either way, those > mails are no longer in the Inbox, so I don't want them populating my > backup Inbox. Otherwise the backup Inbox is going to end up with many > thousands of mails in it. And if I needed to restore my Inbox I'd never > be able to figure out which ones of the thousands to restore. > > And the same thing will happen with my storage folders. I don't delete > mails from them as much, but occasionally I do a housekeeping and throw > out stuff that I think I will never need again. I don't want them to > keep growing until they choke my backup into uselessness. > > I might be able to figure out how to change the command to accomplish > what I want, but I'm scared of rsync and its man page. :( > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
