Re: [LUG] Kubuntu course in North Cornwall?

[Kevin Lucas <kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not much of a wine buff only used it to open notepad to see if it
works but am happy to help where I can.
On the back up side do you just want to back up user data? or the
system?
Tar is the easy way from the command line. Or a script in cron
like this,  goes in /etc/cron.daily as a file called backup.cron (chmod
777) and owned by root
#####################################
#!/bin/sh
# full and incremental backup script
# created 07 February 2000
# Based on a script by Daniel O'Callaghan <danny@xxxxxxxxxxx>
# and modified by Gerhard Mourani <gmourani@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

#Change the 5 variables below to fit your computer/backup

COMPUTER=linux                                  # name of this computer
DIRECTORIES="/home/minions/"                            # directory to
backup
BACKUPDIR=/home/bigdisk/backups/                # where to store the
backups
TIMEDIR=/home/bigdisk/backups/last-full         # where to store time of
full backup
TAR=/bin/tar                                            # name and
locaction of 
tar

#You should not have to change anything below here

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
DOW=`date +%a`                          # Day of the week e.g. Mon
DOM=`date +%d`                          # Date of the Month e.g. 27
DM=`date +%d%b`                 # Date and Month e.g. 27Sep

# On the 1st of the month a permanet full backup is made
# Every Sunday a full backup is made - overwriting last Sundays backup
# The rest of the time an incremental backup is made. Each incremental
# backup overwrites last weeks incremental backup of the same name.
#
# if NEWER = "", then tar backs up all files in the directories
# otherwise it backs up files newer than the NEWER date. NEWER
# gets it date from the file written every Sunday.


# Monthly full backup
if [ $DOM = "01" ]; then
        NEWER=""
        $TAR $NEWER -cf $BACKUPDIR/$COMPUTER-$DM.tar $DIRECTORIES
fi

# Weekly full backup
if [ $DOW = "Sun" ]; then
        NEWER=""
        NOW=`date +%d-%b`

        # Update full backup date
        echo $NOW > $TIMEDIR/$COMPUTER-full-date
        $TAR $NEWER -cf $BACKUPDIR/$COMPUTER-$DOW.tar $DIRECTORIES

# Make incremental backup - overwrite last weeks
else

        # Get date of last full backup
        NEWER="--newer `cat $TIMEDIR/$COMPUTER-full-date`"
        $TAR $NEWER -cf $BACKUPDIR/$COMPUTER-$DOW.tar $DIRECTORIES
fi
########################################################################


On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 08:53 +0100, Viv wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 11:07 +0100, Kevin Lucas wrote:
> > Just a thought.....
> > 
> >             I have (from an earlier post "Free PC's ") got three PC's going 
> > spare.
> > One I have got Fedora Core 7 on the other two need H disks.  I am happy
> > to host a Session here in Minions in the tearoom (room for poss eight
> > people and PC,s) one evening to show Linux and Apps to any one
> > interested.  
> > 
> > James is bringing some more PC's over to the Shop(PL14 5LE 01579 363386)
> > this week so any "takers" can collect from Minions Shop.  I you want
> > Fedora, Suse, Dabian, Asterix or any other flavor just bring a hard disk
> > and the cd. We can Install it here!
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 08:59 +0100, John Hansen wrote:
> > > Tom Potts wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 02 October 2007 17:41, john.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > >   
> > > >> Posted by "John Hansen" <john.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> It is some time since I asked whether any one knew of a course in North
> > > >> Cornwall on the subject of Kubuntu or perhaps Ubuntu. With the various
> > > >> evening classes etc starting soon there might be a course which would me. I
> > > >> am able to use Kubuntu for accessing the Internet using Konqueror and
> > > >> Firefox as well as read emails with Thunderbird. Open Office is also
> > > >> manageable -sort of ;-)
> > > >>
> > > >> What I need is a basic course or instruction to make me more confident in
> > > >> using Kubuntu not that my needs are all that great.
> > > >>
> > > >> I would be delighted if any of you know of a course or training facility
> > > >> offering such instruction.
> > > >>     
> > > > John - this may be a cart-horse order problem but do you have an idea of 
> > > > what 
> > > > you would like?
> > > > Tom te tom te tom
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Tom,
> > > I am after some basic training about the use of Kubuntu which I am happy 
> > > to use for internet
> > > access and Open Office. Where I find it tricky is how to file and use 
> > > folders. I still use
> > > Windows XP for several applications and it would be helpful if I could 
> > > learn to use Wine
> > > for these.
> > > I am not interested in going too far into the realms of Linux but only 
> > > wish to be able to
> > > use the OS for some quite simple activities.
> > > 
> > > I have a couple of books on Ubuntu which also gives some info on Kubuntu 
> > > but I seem
> > > to learn rather better by seeing it done by someone who knows the ins 
> > > and outs.
> > > 
> > > There was a member in Truro who also expressed an interest in learning a 
> > > little more
> > > about the subject so somewhere like Wadebridge or Bodmin would perhaps be
> > > suitable venues.
> > > 
> > > John
> > > 
> > > 
> > -- 
> > Kevin Lucas <kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Minions Shop (Cornwall's Top Shop)
> > 
> > 
> I would be interested as long as the agreed date is OK. I can bring my
> laptop so, would not need a PC. I am also interested in learning more
> about Wine. Also, I would be interested in knowing more about how to
> back up Linux machines.
> 
> I have various isos that I could bring along - Mint, Puppy, DSL, Simply
> Mepis etc. but, my current preferred ones are Mint and Kubuntu.
> 
> thanks for the offer
> 
> Viv
> 
> 
-- 
Kevin Lucas <kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Minions Shop (Cornwall's Top Shop)


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