[H-GEN] chestnut

[Anthony Towns]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 01:36:04PM +1000, Sarah Hollings wrote:
> >        "why? what do you actually need to achieve?"
> >Narrowing the problem domain will help to avoid needlessly baroque
> A crude cron job has been quite successfully backing up a Maildir store 
> daily to a spare IDE disk mounted on /var/backups/disk2:
> 45 6 * * * tar cjf /var/backups/disk2/$(date +%d-%m-%Y)-mail.tar.bz2 
> /home/imap

faubackup is quite nifty -- it doesn't do compression, but it hardlinks
files that don't change; and you can set it up to do things like "keep
a backup from the 1st of the month for twelve months, and the 1st day of
the week for the past eight weeks, and every day for the past seven days,
and every hour for the past day".

Cheers,
aj

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