Re: PINE problem

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On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:06:44PM -0800, David Morris wrote:
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> Surely you have off system backup for all of this data of great concern?
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> If not it should be worth your while to simply purchase a USB external
> hard drive and the use rsync to make a copy... In fact, with the current
> cost of very large drives, you can also create a backup of your whole
> 80GB drive.
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> If your system doesn't include USB ports, a 2nd internal drive is a=20
> simple alternative.
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> What I do when I want to experiment is purchase a new hard drive of the
> same or larger size (appropriate type of SATA or PATA, generally must=20
> match).  Then carefully make an image copy to the new drive,=20
> something like:
>     dd bs=3D1M if=3D/dev/sda  of=3D/dev/sdb
>                      ^^^          ^^^  might be hda and hdb, etc
> then disconnect the original drive and, making jumper settings as
> needed, connect the new drive as the only drive and boot the
> system. It should come up exactly as before.. play with alpine
> and verify that it works ... if it fails just swap back.
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> A. to avoid mail loss make sure your local postfix et al is not
>    running or the system is not connected.
> B. probably helpful if you download alpine before you make the copy
>    so you don't have to connect to the network to acquire alpine.

               ............snip............

I must be missing something here. What would be wrong with simply making
a copy of his mail directory named mail.bak or Maildir.bak depending on
which he's using, downloading Alpine and running it? It will pick up his
existing ~.pinerc and read his mail. After he knows it functions he
deletes the backup mail folder and he's done. If it doesn't work he or=20
corrupts his mail he reinstalls Pine, deletes the corrupted mail, renames=
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his backup mail directory and is back where he started. What am I missing?
This assumes he has the Pine binary on his system or in his backup to=20
reinstall. What am I missing?

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Bob Holtzman
Key ID: 8D549279
"If you think you're getting free lunch,
 check the price of the beer"

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