compress/tar archive mail dirs

[Christo Bezuidenhout]

I have the following two scripts Running. Firstly I create a file with
today's date in it.

echo `date +%Y%m%d` > /mailback/date

Then the following script run the next day 00:03 just to make sure all
mail for the previous day is in the folder. It create a tar.gz file in a
separate folder with the date for that archive and delete the old files.

mkdir /mailback
cd /mailback
for i in $(cat /mailback/date); do
mkdir $i
cd $i
tar --remove-files -cvf backup.tar /var/spool/MailScanner/archive/$i/
mv backup.tar /mailback/Mail-$i.tar
cd /mailback
gzip Mail-$i.tar
rm $i -rf
done

Hope this help.


-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Martin Hepworth
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 4:23 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: compress/tar archive mail dirs


Hi all

anyone got a handy script that will find previous days archive email
dirs and compress/tar them up and delete the directory afterwards?

Could write something myself, but not wanting to re-invent the wheel...

alternatively could this be an option in the Archive Mail config so when
it rolls over to the next dir, it tgz-ed (or whatever) yesterdays
archive directory??

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


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