"Joshua S. Freeman" wrote:
> 
> I'm making good progress in weaning myself off of MacOS.  Instead of
> futzing with linuxppc on my G3 Powerbook which was great, except for the
> challenge of getting wavelan support on it, I'm running debian on a Vaio
> 505TR.  I've got the dialer to work, ssh installed, etc...  my next
> challenge is that for some of my accounts I want to download email to the
> disk... (instead of running mutt on remote hosts)... what are some of the
> strategies/programs people use for this purpose...

Fetchmail. 
 
> also... what's a good backup strategy?  I have an Orb drive on my
> network... I could back this up to an orb disk via the network, but how,
> exactly?


tar -cpf - / | ssh server "cd /mountpointofdrive; tar -xpvf -"

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