Hi List! I have limited-time net connection and not very high speed one at that. So, am putting all my questions in one or two messages and sending. I hope this won't irritate others and also hope I'll get quite a few replies when I check next, in 24 hours or so. Sorry for putting all these in one message.
What is the best way to backup on linux, with a 250M zip drive? I have tried many backup programs but I wish to have something semi-automatic kind of thing. I have used ibackup, bu (script), kbackup, floppybackup, and few others but am not satisfied with them. What I need is something that would regularly (thru cron or anacron or something else), compress the dir in to a zip file, optionally encrypt it, copy it on to a zip disk and then log on to a webdav or ftp server and transfer this file automatically there? What is the best way to have this kind of backup done? I'm subscribed to lots of mailing lists. I use mutt for email. Now using emacs, I use mutt within emacs since I use IMAP and find it hard to use gnus (which kinda behaves like pine, being news-oriented). I archive some mailing lists and have some mailboxes, going nearly over 40MBs or more. Now loading mutt within emacs and loading such a big mailbox, loads okay but makes mutt slow under emacs. What is the best way to use such big mailboxes? I do not like to convert to maildirs, I'm using mbox format. How to set wget so that it can retrieve/download a list of files given to it, as soon as the ppp connection starts? How to set aptitude to download and install packages that were previously given, at start of a ppp connection? How to send offline email? I don't think there is any option to store more than one email offline under mutt, pine or any other console mail-reader. If there is such a mail-reader, plese let me know. I mean how to set postfix/exim4 so that it accepts email and stores them and as soon as a ppp connection is detected, it connects to a smarthost and sends off all the email? Similarly, is there an offline news sender program? I use slrn at the moment but am thinking of switching to leafnode, only problem is that I will send and get news a little late ... the next time I log on to the net, and that means waiting atleast for a day or more, if the net connection at my isp's side has some problems. What can be done if/when apt-get/aptitude/dpkg are unable to either install nor uninstall a package and that package is in broken state and unless that package is properly installed or removed, no other packages can be installed? This happened once and the author of the package replied me here on this list. But now it happened with a few other packages too. What can be done in this case? More than 4 packages are in broken state, not able to install nor removable, so what can I do with this state of apt? I *need* to install some other packages and I am *stuck*. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
