Re: archiving gmail

[Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>]

On 22 October 2012 13:55, Josh More <jmore () starmind org> wrote:
> I use getmail:  http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/
>
> You have to run it in a loop, as Google limits the number of messages
> you can pull at a time to around 100.  (Sometimes it's 80ish,
> sometimes it's 120ish).
>
> I generally find that running:  "for i in {1..20}; do getmail -r
> ~/.getmail/getmail.gmail; sleep 120; done"  is sufficient for my
> backups every few weeks.
>
> I'm sure you could script this in a better way so it automatically
> stops when there's no more mail to get.  Lazy script just uses a loop.
>  :)


That will take a while then to pull down almost 7G of mails (over 4+
years of data). Maybe not a practical option after all.

Robin

> -Josh More
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Alexandre DELOUP
> <alexandre.deloup () gmail com> wrote:
> > A french blogger (@Nicolargo) wrote a how-to to do an automatic and
> > incremental backup of your Gmail account. You can find it there :
> > http://blog.nicolargo.com/2012/08/sauvegarde-incrementale-et-automatise-de-votre-compte-gmail.html
> > .
> > In the case of you don't understand french, I could translate it for you ;-)
> >
> > quack1
> > @_Quack1
> >
> > Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are.
> > PGP public key ID : 0xA26B95CD
> >
> > Le 22/10/2012 11:05, Robin Wood a écrit :
> > > I've been using gmail/google apps for years and according to their
> > > stats I've got over 7G stored in my mailbox. Thinking about all the
> > > hacks that have happened where mail spools have been dumped I reckon
> > > it would be a good idea to remove a lot of that data, maybe everything
> > > beyond 6 months old, but I don't want to delete it, just in case. So I
> > > was thinking of setting up some kind of offline backup which I could
> > > store encrypted and only open if I ever need to dig back through.
> > >
> > > I know this can be done manually with IMAP or POP3, pulling down the
> > > mails and then deleting them from the server and possibly using GPG to
> > > add them to the storage location. But I don't like doing things
> > > manually where they can be scripted so I was wondering if anything
> > > like this already existed before I start putting something together
> > > myself. Anyone know of anything?
> > >
> > > Robin
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