On April 17, 2004 02:55 am, Bombadil wrote:

Hi,

I need to make a backup of my emails (kmail), How can I do that?

In your home directory you will have a directory called....Mail. This contains kmails mail folders and contents. /ch

On Saturday 17 April 2004 08:55, Bombadil wrote:

I need to make a backup of my emails (kmail), How can I do that?

Backup the Mail/ directory in your home directory. You can tar.bz2 it up with tar cfjv mailbackup.tar.bz2 Mail Backing this directory up doesn't backup your contact's though (and maybe your mail filters also not, I'm not sure) - can anyone tell us how to do that? Last time I reinstalled I thought I had all the kmail and kaddressbook related files in .kde/ backed up, but I still lost my contacts Thanks Kind regards Hans

On Saturday 17 April 2004 06:55, Bombadil wrote:

to make a backup of my emails (kmail), How can I do that?

~ maybe, you might use RSYNC + a script, like :- ...................................... #!/bin/sh # # use rsync to backup /home/Bombadil/Mail to /dev/hdb3 # mount -t reiserfs /dev/hdb3 /mnt cd rsync -avr --delete --delete-after /home/Bombadil/Mail /mnt cd umount /mnt .......................... ~ this would, for example, back up to a 2nd Hard Disk, partition 3 . . . you could instruct CRON to run the script every 30 minutes, if you like :) ................................. best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________