Simple backup of maildir folder

[@lbutlr]

On 31 May 2020, at 03:11, Laura Smith <n5d9xq3ti233xiyif2vp at protonmail.ch> wrote:
> On Sunday, 31 May 2020 09:35, @lbutlr <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
>> A couple of notes on this quite useful script:
>> 
>> My mktemp does not support -p (FreeBSD 12.1) is I had to change the script to:
> 
> 
> 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 :

The script linked in my message has most, if not all the features you mention below. I was simply pointing out for anyone who followed this that FreeBSD's mktempo does not support the -p flag and the changes I made to the line that created the temp directory in order to work.

> 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.



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