I’m running my own hand-crafted remote backup (rsync++) script to back up data from one machine to another. But, it has some serious drawbacks, and I’m still looking for something better. Here are my requirements: Runs on Ubuntu Is either: Available in the standard distro (i.e. via apt-get) A simple self-contained script (Python, Perl, Bash, [...]
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Thanks Paul and Greg for the advice on backing up my GMail account. Although fetchmail seems to work for some users, there are a couple of easier to use scripts out there. Paul pointed me at Matt Cutts’ great blog post about using the getmail script to archive GMail. Greg pointed me at libgmail which [...]
Continue Reading →There are many guides to using fetchmail to backup your gmail account, but I use Google Apps For Your Domain to host my mail. So, I needed to craft up a slightly modified version of the fetchmail commandline: $ fetchmail –ssl -p pop3 -vk –user slacy@slacy.com pop.gmail.com The funny thing is that within a few [...]
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