[PLUG] Backing up Google Calendars

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

I was recently fiddling with my Google calendar and wondering how to 
back it up, just in case.  I found:

http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37111
http://lifehacker.com/software/google-calendar/how-to-sync-google-calendar-with-ical-232812.php
http://lifehacker.com/281635/back-up-your-google-apps-data


Basically, you go into the calendar settings and grab the URL for the 
XML, ICAL or HTML versions, and that's it.  A trivial script like this 
and you're done:

#!/bin/bash -
# Trivial script to backup Google Calendars
set -e
cd /home/something/Google_Calendar_Backups
wget -qO jp.xml  'http://www.google.com/cal......'
wget -qO jp.ics  'http://www.google.com/cal......'
wget -qO jp.html 'http://www.google.com/cal......'

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Well you're done unless you want to keep older versions or something, 
though in theory your existing backup solution should handle that. 
Right?  You *do* have an existing backup solution, right?

Cool,
JP
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