Simple backup of maildir folder

[Laura Smith]

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On Sunday, 31 May 2020 09:35, @lbutlr <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:


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> A couple of notes on this quite useful script:
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> My mktemp does not support -p (FreeBSD 12.1) is I had to change the script to:
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In my scripts I tend to create a tempdir and then tempfiles within that.  It makes the cleanup routine neater, e.g. at the top of my scripts :

TEMP_DIR=$(mktemp -qd || { doLog "Failed to make temp dir !"; exit 1; })
rmTmpFiles() { rm -rf "${TEMP_DIR}"; }
createTempFile() { local MYTEMP=$(mktemp -qp "${TEMP_DIR}" || doLog "Failed to create temp file"; exit 1); echo $MYTEMP; }

Also my backup scripts have locking procedures built-in so as to avoid race conditions.