Re: archiving gmail

[Josh More <jmore () starmind org>]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:
> 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


Yes, it will.  I'd do it anyway, as any backup of 7Gb is going to take
a while and, once done, will be fairly easy to maintain.

-Josh More
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