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 - 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