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 > > woul

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 exis

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 s

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 d

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?

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

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

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> Mandra

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 Centre>System>Backups > > > > DJ> It will back up your /

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 Centre>System>Backups > > DJ>

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 Centre>System>Backups DJ> It will back up your /home and /etc folders to CD, ftp, rsync,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT

2005-03-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 04 Mar 2005 21:09, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: 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 t

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT

2005-03-04 Thread SnapafunFrank
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 04 Mar 2005 21:09, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 04 Mar 2005 01:23, riccardo wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:01 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: nice not to have to re-install and loose all the data. _ ~ guess

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. > > > > Wit

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 lin

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT

2005-03-04 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Friday 04 Mar 2005 21:09, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > On Friday 04 Mar 2005 01:23, riccardo wrote: > > On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:01 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: > > > nice not to have to re-install and loose all  the data. > > > > _ > > > > ~ guess it is un-neccessary to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT

2005-03-04 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Friday 04 Mar 2005 01:23, riccardo wrote: > On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:01 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: > > nice not to have to re-install and loose all  the data. > > _ > > ~ guess it is un-neccessary to lose any Data . . . ever :-O > > . . . have CRON Daemon do frequent b

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT

2005-03-03 Thread Eric Huff
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:14:37 -0500 Christopher Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am new to linux in general (1 week) and have decided to put my > individual experiences on the internet in a forum format. I have > posted small messages for each of the experiences that I have had > in the past w

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT

2005-03-03 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 03 March 2005 13:01, Christopher Taylor wrote: > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 07:15:26 +, riccardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:14 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: > > > This is to help me in case I need to re-install > > > > In Linux, most things can be fixed,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT

2005-03-03 Thread riccardo
On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:01 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: > nice not to have to re-install and loose all Âthe data. _ ~ guess it is un-neccessary to lose any Data . . . ever :-O . . . have CRON Daemon do frequent backups of /home directory, using RSYNC script . . . like

Fwd: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT

2005-03-03 Thread Anne Wilson
x27; or re-write the To field. Anne - -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT Date: Thursday 03 Mar 2005 12:05 From: Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Christopher Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SH

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 07:15:26 +, riccardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:14 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: > > This is to help me in case I need to re-install > > In Linux, most things can be fixed, without re-installing. > > best rgds > > I'm still used to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT

2005-03-02 Thread riccardo
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:14 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: > This is to help me in case I need to re-install In Linux, most things can be fixed, without re-installing. best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSo

[newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT

2005-03-02 Thread Christopher Taylor
I am new to linux in general (1 week) and have decided to put my individual experiences on the internet in a forum format. I have posted small messages for each of the experiences that I have had in the past week. This is to help me in case I need to re-install and need to remember what I needed

Re: [newbie] mandrake forum?

2001-04-18 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Adrian and s: This seems to happen periodically on this list -- I got tossed off a month or so back. I resubscribed. -- cmg Adrian Smith wrote: > > ya know, now that you mention it, i haven't either. > you are not alone > > Adrian Smith > 'de telepone dude > Telecom Dept. > x 7042 > [EMAIL PRO

Re: [newbie] mandrake forum?

2001-04-18 Thread Adrian Smith
ya know, now that you mention it, i haven't either. you are not alone Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10:56:50 PM 4/17/01 >>> Anybody else subscribed to the mandrake forum newsletter/announcement list? I haven't gotten an emai

[newbie] mandrake forum?

2001-04-17 Thread s
Anybody else subscribed to the mandrake forum newsletter/announcement list? I haven't gotten an email from them since March 31. Am I alone in this? -s

Re: [newbie] mandrake forum looks diffnt

2001-04-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Syamsul Anwar wrote: > Just popped over to www.mandrakeforum.com and realised that > the it sports a cute new look BUT the posts seem to be > outdated? Any idea what's happening there? Anwaryep, the whole month of March is gone. I guess you were on a little early to get the below message da

[newbie] mandrake forum looks diffnt

2001-04-01 Thread Syamsul Anwar
Just popped over to www.mandrakeforum.com and realised that the it sports a cute new look BUT the posts seem to be outdated? Any idea what's happening there?