Chris, et al -- ...and then Chris Green said... % % I know this is slightly off topic as it's not *directly* related to % mutt but maybe people here can point me in the right direction. *grin* % % I read my mail on a user account on an ISP's linux box using mutt, I % have a reasonable but not unlimited quota there. I would like to % backup my mail on my home machine where I have lots of 'free' disk % space. Makes sense (but do you have a tape backup at home? :-) % % My ideal backup would be a directory structure the same as I maintain % on the ISP's Linux machine but with all mail that I have ever saved in % mailbxes. If this (sort of) mirrors my 'live' mail then I can delete % old mail from the live mail mailboxes secure in the knowledge that the % originals are on my home mcahine backup. There's the trick. I think that that requirement is going to make things very difficult. How will your copy method know whether you meant to delete that message or not? What I do is to use unison, a slightly smarter rsync, to mirror my remote tree on my home server. It is clever about only copying the changed bits and so data transfer is small, and I thus have an identical copy of "there" over "here". Then, when I want to remove an archive from "there", I move it out of the tree "here" (into a different tree, of course). Unison notices and removes the remote copy for me. After I've built up the archive again (just a compressed mbox file; I don't bother with splitting apart by year or month) I do the same thing, this time appending the new archive to the old one. HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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