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Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] Backup of maildir files
From:       Damnshock <damnshock () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-02-27 12:56:36
Message-ID: 200702271356.42886.damnshock () gmail ! com
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On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Jean-Philippe Monteiro wrote:
> Only my two pences real experience, point'N'click backup strategy:
>
> 1) I have a 50 megs partition in ext3 on my 250gb external drive where I
> put my "home" backups, the stuff vital to the system.

50megs? :P 

> 3) I use konserve to do backups, in several stances, once a day, to the
> vFat partition. Every month or so, I manually delete the previous month
> content but for the last one.

Great app, didn't know about it. Thanks!

> ...That's because I can't understand "cron" & other backup strategies...

They're not so difficult, but you need to do some scripting to actually use 
them 

>
> Notes:
> - I used recently a konserve-created backup file to try to migrate to
> openSUSE10.2, un-tar to a tmp folder then used the import feature in kmail:
> Either because of vFat, or because of compression, some import of messages
> displays an error message "cannot import file xxxxxxxxxxxxxx". Not much of
> them though, can't spot the missing ones over 2GB of mails.

99% sure it's because of vfat.

>
> - In the course of a real backup need on the SuSE93 workstation, I did lost
> somewhere near 0.5 to 1% of my emails using this technique: it may be
> killing, but I was happy enough to recover almost all of it.

1% of emails lost is simply unacceptable (it depends on your needs 
obviously ;) ). Anyway, as said before, i think you lost theme because of 
vfat, not for your  method.

>
> A last word of Good Luck: one week after this recovery & migration try-out,
> my maXtor OneTouch II died, aged 9 months. That's when I set-up a gmail
> account where ALL gets forwarded. A backup Strategy ? Sure, get rid of your
> files somewhere it's safe!

That's a great solution, but with one problem: privacy. You're giving Google 
TONS of information which i don't like at all. But that's another topic...

Damnshock

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