Re: How to backup Fastmail and Gmail with isync

[Oswald B. <osw...@gm...>]

On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 08:00:26PM +0100, Sean Hammond wrote:
>It's a bit of a pain for automated backups that isync sometimes exits 
>mid-way through syncing.
>
that, with the progress numbers you showed before, sounds like you're 
syncing from scratch for each backup. why would you do that?

>I'd have to write a loop to keep running isync until it exits with 0 
>(assuming it never exits with 0 without finishing the whole sync). And 
>then I'd worry that a loop like that would loop forever if a persistent 
>error appeared.
>
yes, that's a legitimate concern, and there is a related item in the 
TODO.