Not having a "good time" at present.
A couple of days ago my main PC ( runing Kubunti 6.06) hung on boot-up
and when I exited the splash screen to see the boot info I found that it
was having drive problems - just as the mobo sarted smoking.
Lost the mobo and apparently my reasonably new 250gb SATA II HDD ( data
only). Also stuffed Kubuntu installation, but thankfully not HDD.
Copied bookmark files ( Opera and Firefox) and mail ( Thunderbird)
settings to other PC, running LinuxMint.
Just now had system hang on this PC whilst downloading another .iso in
Opera ( insufficient space on HDD) and upon closing opera got message,
made wrong choice and opera.adr saved to zero bytes - lost bookmarks.
Forunately I can copy them over again from other PC.
Anyhow, I've decided that I want to auto backup ( copy) bookmarks and
mail settings regularly to another HDD or partition. Have "googled" and
found many ways to do this, including Kcron and Rsync, plus many scripts
which are mostly appear to be overkill for my needs at home.
Can anybody direct me to either an existing utiliy or a suitable script
that is know to work and is safe to use as I have no knowledge of
scripting and don't want to "just run" anyhing that I get from the 'Web
in case its malicious or flawed.
Am willing to try scripting myself but don't want to risk making matters
worse, particularly whilst I am in midst of rebuilding my Kubuntu setup.
Thanks
Bill
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