Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups

2005-03-05 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 21:25:53 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DJ As usual Mandrake has a nice newbie friendly tool to do backups DJ for you. DJ Make sure drakxtools is installed then, DJ Mandrake Control CentreSystemBackups DJ It will back up your /home and /etc folders

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups

2005-03-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 05 March 2005 11:23, Paul Smith wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 21:25:53 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DJ As usual Mandrake has a nice newbie friendly tool to do backups DJ for you. DJ Make sure drakxtools is installed then, DJ Mandrake Control

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups

2005-03-05 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:17:24 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to back up only certain (and previously specified) directories and NOT the whole /home? yes Thanks, Derek. But, how? Paul Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups

2005-03-05 Thread Paul
Op Sat, 5 Mar 2005 14:04:02 + schreef Paul Smith: On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:17:24 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to back up only certain (and previously specified) directories and NOT the whole /home? yes *grin* That almost looks like the answer of MS-tech

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups

2005-03-05 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 15:18:24 +0100, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to back up only certain (and previously specified) directories and NOT the whole /home? yes *grin* That almost looks like the answer of MS-tech support. ;-) Thanks, Derek. But, how? I had a quick

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups

2005-03-05 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 05 March 2005 09:18, Paul wrote: I had a quick look at drakbackup. You can click an 'advanced' button, and from there you can select exactly what you want backed up. Just run the program yourself (as root), it is very simple. And it won't start doing things on its own. If you

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups

2005-03-05 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 10:24:35 -0500, Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a quick look at drakbackup. You can click an 'advanced' button, and from there you can select exactly what you want backed up. Just run the program yourself (as root), it is very simple. And it won't start

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups

2005-03-05 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 05 March 2005 10:52, Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, Bryan. I am planning to make my backups to my hard disk and, from time to time, I will save them to CDs. However, I fear that a backup file may be bigger than the storage capacity of a CD. So, I would like to ask whether there exists

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups

2005-03-05 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 12:50:56 -0500, Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Bryan. I am planning to make my backups to my hard disk and, from time to time, I will save them to CDs. However, I fear that a backup file may be bigger than the storage capacity of a CD. So, I would like to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups

2005-03-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 04 March 2005 09:04, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: SNIP Further question. Have been looking at cron directories (I think anyway!). Have a long list of /etc/rc or etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.hourly and so on. With regard to the above script - do I navigate to the appropriate line

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups

2005-03-04 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Friday 04 Mar 2005 22:29, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 09:04, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: SNIP Further question. Have been looking at cron directories (I think anyway!). Have a long list of /etc/rc or etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.hourly and so on. With regard to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups

2005-03-04 Thread rikona
Hello Derek, Friday, March 4, 2005, 1:29:09 AM, Derek wrote: DJ As usual Mandrake has a nice newbie friendly tool to do backups DJ for you. DJ Make sure drakxtools is installed then, DJ Mandrake Control CentreSystemBackups DJ It will back up your /home and /etc folders to CD, ftp, rsync, DJ

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups

2005-03-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 04 March 2005 20:30, rikona wrote: Hello Derek, Friday, March 4, 2005, 1:29:09 AM, Derek wrote: DJ As usual Mandrake has a nice newbie friendly tool to do backups DJ for you. DJ Make sure drakxtools is installed then, DJ Mandrake Control CentreSystemBackups DJ It will back up