* On 2004.07.26, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, * "Jim Medley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am running, quite successfully I will add, sendmail / qpopper on a > Mac G4 OS 10.2.8. I have about 30 mail clients. What I would like to > do is backup the mail folder on a daily basis. I use Retrospect and > usually always get error messages when it backup the mail folder, > probably because mail boxes are in use. What I have been doing is
Consider using rsync -- this creates differential copies, so you can run it more often. If you rsync to a clone directory, Retrospect can back that up without trouble. E.g., run this from cron, every hour or as often as you like: rsync -avr /var/mail/ /Volumes/Backup/varmail/ And let Retrospect back that up normally. The advantages are that you have an online backup, not just the tape copy, and that it can be more current than the tarball. You can afford to run rsync more often because it copies only differences, not the entire file. -- -D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] NSIT::ENSS
