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This plugin/extension is bundled with the Dada Mail Magic Book.

NAME

dada_backup.pl - a simple list backup utility for Dada Mail

Directions:

Where are your Perl Libraries?
Since this script is supposed to be run via a cron job, (although it will work fine using from the command line) you usually have to type the entire path to your Perl Libraries.

example:

        use lib '/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/';

Where are Dada Mail's Libraries?
Dada Mail uses variables that are located in the Config.pm file to figure out where the lists are, among other things.

example:

        use lib '/usr/home/account/public_html/cgi-bin/dada';

Where are the backup files going?
Makes sure this script has read and write permisssions to this directory

example:

        my $backup_lists = '/home/account/.dada_files/.backups';

Where is the backup log?
dada_backup.pl will keep a log of what it's doing so you're not left in the dark if something goes awry

example:

        my $dada_backup_log = "$backup_lists/dada_backup.log";

When should dada_backup.pl remove old files?
It'll remove EVERYTHING in the $backup_lists directory except the backup log, if it finds it. This is in days:

example:

        my $remove_after = 1;

How do you want your backup lists named?
Things in brackets will be replaced with what they really are, so [year] will be replaced with 2001, etc

you have

        [list_name] [year] [month] [day] [hour] [minute] [second]

to choose from

example:

        my $backup_name = '[list_name].list-[year][month][day][hour][minute][second]';

Want to send this backup report to someone?
place their e-mail address in this variable, and they'll get a copy as well

example:

        my $email_log_to = 'you@here.com';

Echo?
Finally, if you run this script interactively quite a bit, you may want to have a copy of the report printed out in the terminal, so you can figure out what's going on, just set this variable to 1;

example:

        my $echo_log = 0;

Changes

Version 1.2

commented out the list_copy subroutine... since, it wasn't being used anyways!

Version 1.1

Changes were made to the script to specifically not look at directories. The problem is, as of version 2.8.12 of the script, a backup directory could in fact have a backup directory per list with list setting and archive information, that would muck up this script. In the future, more integration should be done with this script and the other backup model.

AUTHOR

Justin Simoni

creative@justinsimoni.com

http://justinsimoni.com

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Justin Simoni http://justinsimoni.com All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

Dada Mail is Free Software and is released under the Gnu Public License.
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