Comments on: How to Backup your Gmail or Google Apps Account Daily http://georgedonnelly.com/unix/how-to-quickly-set-up-a-daily-backup-of-your-gmail-account Arm your Mind for Liberty Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:08:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: mister jason™ http://georgedonnelly.com/unix/how-to-quickly-set-up-a-daily-backup-of-your-gmail-account#comment-6597 mister jason™ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:26:55 +0000 http://georgedonnelly.com/15#comment-6597 Just as I was suspecting...it's a gmail issue. For reasons that should be obvious, gmail only lets you grab messages a few hundred at a time. I'm guessing it's more about the amount of data rather than number of messages since the number I get each time varies so wildly. Just as I was suspecting…it’s a gmail issue. For reasons that should be obvious, gmail only lets you grab messages a few hundred at a time.

I’m guessing it’s more about the amount of data rather than number of messages since the number I get each time varies so wildly.

]]> By: George http://georgedonnelly.com/unix/how-to-quickly-set-up-a-daily-backup-of-your-gmail-account#comment-6596 George Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:44:51 +0000 http://georgedonnelly.com/15#comment-6596 Jason, surprising, let us know how it turns out, thanks. Jason, surprising, let us know how it turns out, thanks.

]]> By: mister jason™ http://georgedonnelly.com/unix/how-to-quickly-set-up-a-daily-backup-of-your-gmail-account#comment-6595 mister jason™ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:16:40 +0000 http://georgedonnelly.com/15#comment-6595 I have this working beautifully in cygwin. It just took installing getmaill and turning on the cron service...which I found how to do here: http://www.devdaily.com/blog/post/linux-unix/get-crontab-started-running-when-using-cygwin/ I've only run the script (manually) twice now to test functionality and I'm seeing a strange behavior. Thi first run only saw 282 messages and stopped when it had grabbed them all. The second run saw 832 messages and is still running. Right now there are 5157 messages in my gmail account. Not sure what the deal is...I'm going to keep at it until I get a good result and post my findings back here. I have this working beautifully in cygwin. It just took installing getmaill and turning on the cron service…which I found how to do here: http://www.devdaily.com/blog/post/linux-unix/get-crontab-started-running-when-using-cygwin/

I’ve only run the script (manually) twice now to test functionality and I’m seeing a strange behavior. Thi first run only saw 282 messages and stopped when it had grabbed them all. The second run saw 832 messages and is still running. Right now there are 5157 messages in my gmail account.

Not sure what the deal is…I’m going to keep at it until I get a good result and post my findings back here.

]]> By: George http://georgedonnelly.com/unix/how-to-quickly-set-up-a-daily-backup-of-your-gmail-account#comment-6499 George Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:54:13 +0000 http://georgedonnelly.com/15#comment-6499 You want to try installing this: http://py25-socket-ssl.darwinports.com/ You want to try installing this:

http://py25-socket-ssl.darwinports.com/

]]> By: Rob Rutten http://georgedonnelly.com/unix/how-to-quickly-set-up-a-daily-backup-of-your-gmail-account#comment-6498 Rob Rutten Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:58:46 +0000 http://georgedonnelly.com/15#comment-6498 I tried to follow the whole recipe on a MacBook Pro but get stuck at gmail using SSL: rr@mac:~> getmail -ln --rcfile getmailrc.mygmailaccount getmail version 4.7.7 Copyright (C) 1998-2007 Charles Cazabon. Licensed under the GNU GPL version 2. SimplePOP3SSLRetriever:xxxxxxx@gmail.com@pop.gmail.com:995: Configuration error: SSL not supported by this installation of Python I tried to follow the whole recipe on a MacBook Pro but get stuck at
gmail using SSL:

rr@mac:~> getmail -ln –rcfile getmailrc.mygmailaccount
getmail version 4.7.7
Copyright (C) 1998-2007 Charles Cazabon. Licensed under the GNU GPL version 2.
SimplePOP3SSLRetriever:xxxxxxx@gmail.com@pop.gmail.com:995:
Configuration error: SSL not supported by this installation of Python

]]> By: george http://georgedonnelly.com/unix/how-to-quickly-set-up-a-daily-backup-of-your-gmail-account#comment-5904 george Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:59:02 +0000 http://georgedonnelly.com/15#comment-5904 Well you now have your email in either mbox or Maildir format. These are the 2 most popular formats so you shouldn't have any trouble using them anywhere you can get email service and the access to upload your email. Well you now have your email in either mbox or Maildir format. These are the 2 most popular formats so you shouldn’t have any trouble using them anywhere you can get email service and the access to upload your email.

]]> By: Pablo http://georgedonnelly.com/unix/how-to-quickly-set-up-a-daily-backup-of-your-gmail-account#comment-5903 Pablo Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:48:07 +0000 http://georgedonnelly.com/15#comment-5903 Can you be more specific about recovering? What if I want to migrate the backup to a new hosting?..Thanks a lot, the article is great.. Can you be more specific about recovering? What if I want to migrate the backup to a new hosting?..Thanks a lot, the article is great..

]]> By: How to back up your Gmail on Linux in four easy steps http://georgedonnelly.com/unix/how-to-quickly-set-up-a-daily-backup-of-your-gmail-account#comment-4651 How to back up your Gmail on Linux in four easy steps Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:31:27 +0000 http://georgedonnelly.com/15#comment-4651 [...] props to Charles Cazabon for his getmail program. - This write-up from about a year ago covers how to back up Gmail as well. - The author of getmail seems to hang out quite a bit on this getmail mailing list. See [...] [...] props to Charles Cazabon for his getmail program. - This write-up from about a year ago covers how to back up Gmail as well. - The author of getmail seems to hang out quite a bit on this getmail mailing list. See [...]

]]> By: george http://georgedonnelly.com/unix/how-to-quickly-set-up-a-daily-backup-of-your-gmail-account#comment-2750 george Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:55:38 +0000 http://georgedonnelly.com/15#comment-2750 you should run those commands in Terminal. Or you can try opening up a fresh textedit document, edit it as needed and then save as to the right location. If you're on a Windows box of course my howto may not apply at all. My howto only applies to unix/linux, e.g. Ubuntu, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, etc. you should run those commands in Terminal.

Or you can try opening up a fresh textedit document, edit it as needed and then save as to the right location. If you’re on a Windows box of course my howto may not apply at all. My howto only applies to unix/linux, e.g. Ubuntu, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, etc.

]]> By: skttbrbrain http://georgedonnelly.com/unix/how-to-quickly-set-up-a-daily-backup-of-your-gmail-account#comment-2743 skttbrbrain Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:18:48 +0000 http://georgedonnelly.com/15#comment-2743 well I got till "Run the Following Commands" and got stuck at "Getmail Configuration File". when you say "And put the following into ~/.getmail/getmailrc.mygmailaccount", how do you mean? I was expecting the file to open up in textedit or something and I put in those details and save, and watch it close automagically, so I get on to the next step. but obviously, I'm much too naive when it comes these things. still, I'd really like to get this working. help? thanks! well I got till “Run the Following Commands” and got stuck at “Getmail Configuration File”.

when you say “And put the following into ~/.getmail/getmailrc.mygmailaccount”, how do you mean? I was expecting the file to open up in textedit or something and I put in those details and save, and watch it close automagically, so I get on to the next step. but obviously, I’m much too naive when it comes these things.

still, I’d really like to get this working. help?
thanks!

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