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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] Backup of maildir
From:       Art Alexion <art.alexion () verizon ! net>
Date:       2007-02-27 3:03:04
Message-ID: 200702262203.05096.art.alexion () verizon ! net
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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 person
> 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 directories 
corresponding to your mail folders containing normal files corresponding to 
each of the messages therein.  There shouldn't be any difference in 
permissions than anything else in ~/*.  Are you saying they didn't back up or 
that they wouldn't restore, or that they restored but kmail couldn't find 
them?
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