(Date/Time: 26/07/04 7:17 pm), The Little Prince wrote: > that's pretty off-topic for this list. better off trying an OSX list. > > -Tony > .-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-. > Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.asteroid-b612.org > > "It's not easy bein' green..there's so many colors I'd rather be" > .-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-. > > On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Jim Medley wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> 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 >> create an archive of the mail folder (tar -cf mail.tar mail), then >> gzip it, then do the backup. I would like to automate this task and I >> was thinking of adding it to the daily job that cron runs. I have >> already made a backup copy of daily. So can anyone tell how to do >> this (or maybe not to do this)? >> >> Thanks, >> Jim >> -- >> The point is not that Jim may have a Mac with OSX 10.2.8, but that he is using a *nix kernel - Darwin. The answer for Jim is to devise a script that will lock out any other process while the archive is underway. I have a G4/933 OSX 10.3.4 which comes with Postfix, which seems more adaptable.
I'm sorry, though, that I haven't yet done this myself! Jan Cobb (Miss)
