It’s not happening again.
So after the fiasco earlier this month, I resolved that I'm keeping my own backups of everything. And since e-mail is what started the problems, e-mail is where I'm going to start too.
There are several good ways I could backup my e-mail. It'd be trivial to write scripts to tar up my mbox files every once in awhile and download them. Or I could rsync them to another account. However, I decided to go with a truly off-site backup, that was stored in a more usable format that I could search through immediately and restore piecewise if necessary. Aka GMail!
All I needed to do was setup a forwarder from my primary e-mail to my new backup GMail account. (I have a real GMail account for things that might spam me; this is a separate account.) Now I'm receiving mirrored copies of everything to that account. I don't need to do any spam prevention or anything, since I can search for whatever mail I need quickly and easily. And GMail has a much more lenient account dormancy policy— 9 months— than do most free mail providers.
All in all, I think it's going to be a fine solution… but let me know if I'm missing something ;)
12:01 am
-_-
It was supposed to have an <3 after the word G-Mail.
6:28 am
Wow. A clickable emot table.
Hmm I could ask how you did it, or be petty and jealous and eat your bandwidth instead…
*ponders*
OH in response to your post (:P): Backup = Good. Method = Good.
Chocolate + cake = Good.
10:44 am
It looks like Seth used the More Smilies Plugin (for WordPress) and added the code to his comments template to add it in. There’s a few similar plugins which do the same thing aswell, i’m sure.
Anyway Seth, nice method. I actually do the same thing, except I just use a rule in my e-mail client which forwards everything on; it’s mostly so it’s all in one easy place I can get to on another computer if I need to (i’d rather sign in to GMail, rather than sign into cPanel, as I know you can get to it from there).
1:00 pm
I actually use IMAP mail, which means I can access my mail from any client, anywhere. You might like to check it out.
3:54 pm
Wait, I already get my e-mail for my domain in my e-mail client through POP, same with other accounts. I then forward it on to GMail so I can get to it from somewhere like school (as i’ve needed to once or twice in the past) just through a browser, and in one place, and not have to visit the cPanel through a browser.
I thought IMAP was the same thing as POP, as I already do (or similar, anyway), so I could get it in an e-mail client.
Meh, i’m probably making no sense :angel:
8:12 am
I do this, except I forward my emails to yahoo. And as soon as I get an email from some one I get the yahoo toolbar telling me. So I sign into one of my emailing accounts via cPanel #”2095/” and I collect any new emails. But for the record, this was my idea first =p XD… (j/k)
I find this way of doing things easier, then I do with using POP3!
9:46 am
It sounds like a pretty air tight method. I used to mass download all my emails from my Hotmail account to my Hard Drive through Outlook. But Hotmail looks like they stopped supporting that. I might have to consider something like this. Thanks for the idea and I hope this new method goes well B)
11:32 am
I have all of my site mail (anything that ends in @scottyblack.com
) forwarded to my GMail…it’s easier that way, cause I have a GMail notifier, so I can always see when someone has sent me something important. I used thunderbird before that for all of my mail, but I kinda like this way better.
4:55 pm
I use GMail for my backups too with a backup account.. currently using 392MB out of 2.7GB space. Speaking of GMail and backups, I better go backup my Firefox profiles right now!