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Best way to back-up a message archive?

 

Hoping other group owners can help. What's the best way to keep local back-ups of one's group archive on a regular basis?

Is there a way you do it via groups.io? or do you use something else to make sure you have all the archive and current posts on your own system?

Thank you!

Maria
 

You can download the message archive - in Settings.

However it would be nice to automate this to save to Dropbox or the cloud.

Frances
 

I was exploring that and see it opens the archive up as plain text (sort of?) in a browser page... is it supposed to download it to a file? (i'm using firefox).

So, then when it's in the browser window what do you do...?

And yes - would LOVE for there to be a one or two click way to routinely back it up to a cloud based system.

Maria
 

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 03:44 pm, HR Tech wrote:


I was exploring that and see it opens the archive up as plain text (sort of?)
in a browser page... is it supposed to download it to a file? (i'm using
firefox).
Right-click the Download Archives button and choose "Save as...".
The downloaded file is in "unix mailbox" format. You can open it in Thunderbird.
 

Maria,

I was exploring that and see it opens the archive up as plain text (sort
of?) in a browser page... is it supposed to download it to a file? (i'm
using firefox).
Not by itself.

So, then when it's in the browser window what do you do...?
As Lena said, use the browser's File | Save As feature to save that page to a file on your computer.

And yes - would LOVE for there to be a one or two click way to routinely
back it up to a cloud based system.
Store that file in a folder that is automatically sync'd to a cloud service. If you have the Dropbox app on your computer it can do that for you. Cloud backup services like Carbonite would sweep that up along with all your other files.


Shal

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