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joeyates / imap-backup

Backup and Migrate IMAP Email Accounts
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Copy interruption at failing account #148

Closed Rudiberto closed 1 year ago

Rudiberto commented 1 year ago

When I Friday changed the password of my account, I forgot to change it also in imap-backup. The day after, I noticed that the backup stopped at this account and did not go further. Does that mean, that the backups after the failing account has not been done? If so, can I do anything to avoid, that backups after a failing account, are not created? Since I immediately fixed the problem, I can not see by myself, when the last backup has been done. If so, can I do anything to avoid, that backups after a failing account, are not created?

joeyates commented 1 year ago

Hi @Rudiberto

If your backup is interrupted, when it starts again, all messages on the server that have not yet been backed up will be downloaded.

If there were messages that arrived in the period that backup was not working and were deleted (by you or others), then, obviously those messages will not be backed up.

If you want to check what, if anything, is missing, use the imap-backup local commands (imap-backup local accounts, imap-backup local folders and imap-backup local list) to check the state of you local backup and compare it to what's present online.

Rudiberto commented 1 year ago

Now I realize, that I forgot to mention, that there are ~10 accounts backed up every night. The reason for the question is, if it would be possible, not to interrupt the whole backup procedure, when one account fails, but go on with the next working item. The actual behavior lets fail the whole row, if the first account fails, even when the others would work fine. Now I'm thinking about separate instances of imap-backup with only one account for each.

joeyates commented 1 year ago

Hi @Rudiberto

Sorry, I didn't understand your problem. What I think is the problem is that an error while running the backup on one account stops the whole backup process, so other accounts do not get backed up.

I've now fixed this and will publish a new version later today.

joeyates commented 1 year ago

Released as version 9.1.0