On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 15:13 +1030, Callan Davies wrote:
> > I have loaded the system monitor as you have suggested and now have the
> > the little window on my panel. Couldn't find "Load" and "Disk" but I'll
> > work that out.
> >
> > You comments are pertinent and encouraging. Thanks again.
>
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 18:24 -0700, daniel sobey wrote:
> When thinking about backups you need to ask yourself what you are protecting
> against.
>
> Do you want to protect yourself against a hard drive failure?
> Though not a backup raid mirroring can help reduce the effects of this.
> you could
> I have loaded the system monitor as you have suggested and now have the
> the little window on my panel. Couldn't find "Load" and "Disk" but I'll
> work that out.
>
> You comments are pertinent and encouraging. Thanks again.
Hi Dave,
Right-Click on the system monitor panel applet and choo
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 11:10 +1030, Callan Davies wrote:
> > Simply Backup all goes well to the point of pressing the "backup now"
> > button and the "A backup run is initiated. The process id is "
> > message is displayed. After that, there is no sign of activity - that I
> > can see. I presu
When thinking about backups you need to ask yourself what you are protecting
against.
Do you want to protect yourself against a hard drive failure?
Though not a backup raid mirroring can help reduce the effects of this.
you could do a copy of all the data on one disk to another disk in the same
> Simply Backup all goes well to the point of pressing the "backup now"
> button and the "A backup run is initiated. The process id is "
> message is displayed. After that, there is no sign of activity - that I
> can see. I presume that it is working in the background. Though it
> doesn't pr
For some time now I have been (dangerously!) putting off backing up my
8.04 system. There is much chatter on the Internet about the various
"best methods". I think I have settled on Simply Backup which I have now
installed. It seems to have all the elements that suit me.
Simply Backup all goes w
On Sun Mar 29 22:35 , Lisa Milne sent:
>Or a step up from that would be Mutt or Pine which are both command line
>clients.
Long term Mutt (ncurses interface) user here. Brilliant package, and has good
support for all the stuff you want (attachment saving, pgp/GnuPG integration,
etc).
IMAP+Mutt
