Mail client having trouble with email format. (Was: Re: Scheduled Backups of Home Directory)

[Erik Christiansen]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 07:55:58AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> · Gregory Piñero <gregpinero at gmail.com>:
> > On 8/7/06, Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> wrote:>> > b. How can I schedule/automate a script that needs root privledges?>>>> Use the crontab from user root. Alternatively, modify the /etc/fstab,>> so that it includes "users" in the line for your 2nd hard drive.> > Would you mind elaborting on these two ideas, or pointing me towards> some web resources or search terms?
> For what? For crontab or for fstab?
> >> Dump the script and use rsnapshot. Check out the home page>> to see why it's so great.> > I like rsnapshot but it looks a little too complicated to set up
> No, it's not at all complicated to setup, I think.
> 3.1. 30 second version (for the impatient)
> ./configure --sysconfdir=/etcsumake installcp /etc/rsnapshot.conf.default /etc/rsnapshot.conf
> Then all you need to do is modify the configuration file. It hasa lot of comments and thus should be quite self explanatory.
> > and > I'm not sure I understand how it works. 
> It creates "snapshot" directories of the directories which areto be backed up. Under these directories, you'll then find thedata which is backed up. To restore a file (or everything), you'djust copy it from there. Can't be any easier ;) Just give it atry!
> The great thing about rsnapshot is, that it requires so littlespace - usually just the space for one backup + something, forvery MANY backups (a user reported, that he has 20 backupsand only occupies 130% of space of the original data! That'shard to beat).
> > I figure for something as > important as backups, I'm better off sticking to methods that I> understand a little.
> Have you read the Howto?
> Alexander Skwar-- Ah..  Das war HTML...  was ich nicht kann...                -- Oliver Zendel

Alexander,

Apropos "was ich nicht kann", just your posts have in the last month or
so, started to fail to line-wrap here. My procmail & mutt configurations
have handled tens of thousands of posts OK, but in case it was my
automatic long-line wrapping in procmail, your posts now pass directly
to my inbox, without any processing. They still look lke they've been
through a sausage machine. :-)

Trying "od -c" on the message, I see that the newlines preceding "> >"
are missing on receipt:

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Is there any chance that the newline-eating gremlin is at your end?

Erik

P.S. At least your sig-quotes are still readable, so all is not lost. ;-)