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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Educational Calendars pictures

We have just migrated our calendars from meeting maker to Google Apps for Education.
This cloud service is obviously very cool and all that but I would still like to have an off cloud backups.



There are several commercial programs that you can, but I wanted something simple that can be scheduled from CRON. This script uses WWW mechanize to log into Calendar  and download a compressed copy of all calendars.
For the user account is an administrative, and has recorded all the users calendars, this will make a zip file containing all the calendars.

I adjusted the original script to use certain administrative side. Also did I read the script in a password file, instead of giving sensitive information to the command line, making it appear the process list. This can be a problem when backup several large calendars take some time.






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