[ale] email backup

Robert L. Harris Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net
Wed Sep 29 09:11:05 EDT 2004



I believe the Exchange people at my company keep emails they want to
save in a PST file on the nfs server.  That file ends up in their home
dir and is backed up.  It's also subject to quotas at that point.....



Thus spake James P. Kinney III (jkinney at localnetsolutions.com):

> Several people have been asking me lately how to back up their email
> files in M$ Outbreak. There is no consistent was to tell people _how_ to
> find their email files as the entire mess is under multiple hidden
> directories and has numerous gibberish names designed to prevent mortals
> from finding these things. 
> 
> Does anyone have a backup application that works well for email backups
> and restores? 
> 
> One of these folks hit the file size limit with a 2 Gig inbox on win2k.
> It crashed making a Bad Day (tm).
> -- 
> James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
> CEO & Director of Engineering \          one Linux user         /
> Local Net Solutions,LLC        \           at a time.          /
> 770-493-8244                    \.___________________________./
> http://www.localnetsolutions.com
> 
> GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
> <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
> Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7



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