Fiark is a File Transfer Tool (FTT.)
Unlike a backup, an FTT is designed to QUICKLY copy ("float") files between a DIVERSE set of computing environments.
`archivemail' is a tool written in python for archiving and compressing old email in mailboxes.
It can move messages that are older that the specified number of days to a mbox-format mailbox
compressed with gzip, or optionally just delete old email.