Hi, How can I backup the mails received by kmail? I know that is storage in the directory Mail, but if I create subdirectories in any directory its content is lost or I don't know how to recover. What is the correct procedure to do the backup? Thadeu
Mandag den 29. december 2003 19:55 kvad Jose Thadeu Cavalcante:
How can I backup the mails received by kmail? I know that is storage in the directory Mail, but if I create subdirectories in any directory its content is lost or I don't know how to recover. What is the correct procedure to do the backup?
Good day Thadeu, you can copy the entire Mail directory to an other directory (for instance Mail-Backup). Best regards :o) Johnny :o)
On Monday 29 December 2003 19:55, Jose Thadeu Cavalcante wrote:
How can I backup the mails received by kmail? I know that is storage in the directory Mail, but if I create subdirectories in any directory its content is lost or I don't know how to recover. What is the correct procedure to do the backup?
Simply make a backup of the entire Mail-directory (and keep it somewhere safe). A way to do this is making a tar file that wiill save the structure and all the subdirectorys: tar cvf thadeu-mail-backup_301203.tar Mail/ If you want to compress the tar-file, add "z" as a parameter, og do a gzip thadeu-mail-backup_301203.tar after. -j -- My baby daughter loves Linux! <http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000564.html> <http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000556.html> <http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000563.html>
The problem for me is when I reinstall or install a new version of SuSE, kmail don't recover the subdirectories content, only the content of the first level directory. Thadeu On Tuesday 30 December 2003 03:59, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
On Monday 29 December 2003 19:55, Jose Thadeu Cavalcante wrote:
How can I backup the mails received by kmail? I know that is storage in the directory Mail, but if I create subdirectories in any directory its content is lost or I don't know how to recover. What is the correct procedure to do the backup?
Simply make a backup of the entire Mail-directory (and keep it somewhere safe). A way to do this is making a tar file that wiill save the structure and all the subdirectorys:
tar cvf thadeu-mail-backup_301203.tar Mail/
If you want to compress the tar-file, add "z" as a parameter, og do a
gzip thadeu-mail-backup_301203.tar
after.
-j
-- My baby daughter loves Linux! <http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000564.html> <http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000556.html> <http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000563.html>
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 11:14, Jose Thadeu Cavalcante wrote:
The problem for me is when I reinstall or install a new version of SuSE, kmail don't recover the subdirectories content, only the content of the first level directory. Thadeu
Did you backup your config? ~/kde/share/config/kmailrc ? and perhaps ~/kde/share/config/kaddressbookrc ? Bye Didi
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 08:37, Dietrich Restemeyer wrote:
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 11:14, Jose Thadeu Cavalcante wrote:
The problem for me is when I reinstall or install a new version of SuSE, kmail don't recover the subdirectories content, only the content of the first level directory. Thadeu
Did you backup your config? ~/kde/share/config/kmailrc ? and perhaps ~/kde/share/config/kaddressbookrc ?
Bye Didi
I do not this. Thank you Thadeu
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 11:14, Jose Thadeu Cavalcante wrote:
The problem for me is when I reinstall or install a new version of SuSE, kmail don't recover the subdirectories content, only the content of the first level directory.
Strange. When I drop some mbox'es in my Mail-folder, Kmail automatically import them in the folder structure. Would expect the same behavior for maildir. Maybe you need to backup your Kmail-config or do import? -j -- My baby daughter loves Linux! <http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000564.html> <http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000556.html> <http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000563.html>
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 11:55, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 11:14, Jose Thadeu Cavalcante wrote:
The problem for me is when I reinstall or install a new version of SuSE, kmail don't recover the subdirectories content, only the content of the first level directory.
Strange. When I drop some mbox'es in my Mail-folder, Kmail automatically import them in the folder structure. Would expect the same behavior for maildir. Maybe you need to backup your Kmail-config or do import?
I configure kmail to use maildir, I trying to use mbox to see what is happen. Thank you Thadeu
I think to found my mistake: I don't backup the hidden files and directories in thar Mail directory. Thank you Thadeu On Tuesday 30 December 2003 11:55, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 11:14, Jose Thadeu Cavalcante wrote:
The problem for me is when I reinstall or install a new version of SuSE, kmail don't recover the subdirectories content, only the content of the first level directory.
Strange. When I drop some mbox'es in my Mail-folder, Kmail automatically import them in the folder structure. Would expect the same behavior for maildir. Maybe you need to backup your Kmail-config or do import?
-j
-- My baby daughter loves Linux! <http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000564.html> <http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000556.html> <http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000563.html>
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 22:45, Jose Thadeu Cavalcante wrote:
I think to found my mistake: I don't backup the hidden files and directories in thar Mail directory.
If you make a backup using tar you get all files, including the hidden ones. -j -- My baby daughter loves Linux! <http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000564.html> <http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000556.html> <http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000563.html>
On Wednesday 31 December 2003 05:28, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 22:45, Jose Thadeu Cavalcante wrote:
I think to found my mistake: I don't backup the hidden files and directories in thar Mail directory.
If you make a backup using tar you get all files, including the hidden ones.
I was copied the Mail directory diretly to CD-RW. Thank you very much Thadeu
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