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On Sunday 25 February 2007 23:10, Dick Angus wrote:
> I have been doing regular full backups of my /home/USER_NAME directory
> feeling confident that I was covered. A few days ago I needed to do a
> recovery and found all my e-mail gone. This was damned irritating, to say
> the least. Now, through research, I find this a common flaw in KMail and
> maildir formats. Damned irritating as well is the fact that I cannot find
> any information on how to do a backup of maildir. KMail does not have a
> backup feature, Konqueror fails, and both cp and rcp fail. How can a pers=
on
> backup their e-mail files with some degree of confidence that they can
> recover if required?

I'm not sure why the maildir didn't back up.  They are just normal director=
ies=20
corresponding to your mail folders containing normal files corresponding to=
=20
each of the messages therein.  There shouldn't be any difference in=20
permissions than anything else in ~/*.  Are you saying they didn't back up =
or=20
that they wouldn't restore, or that they restored but kmail couldn't find=20
them?
=2D-=20

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Art Alexion

PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661  92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A
Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net
The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for=20
alarm.  Info @=20
http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html
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