Friday, August 20, 2010

Let Gmail to handle Mailto (Firefox right click send link)

1. Open Edit >Preferences (firefox on Linux)
2. Click the Application tab.
3. Search 'mailto' in the search field.
4. Select Use Gmail in the action column
5. Click close button
6. That it.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Use fsarchiver to backup Mandriva Linux system

I am using Mandriva Linux and I tried many ways to backup my system. Finally I found this good backup software - Fsarchiver.
Fsarchiver  is included in the System Rescue CD. Download the iso and burn it to a CD.

mount -t ext4 /dev/sda7 /mnt/backup (this is to mount the partition in my hard disk for storing the backup)

fsarchiver  -j2 -o savefs /mnt/backup/mandriva2010spring.fsa /dev/sda1 (archive)

fsarchiver restfs /mnt/backup/mandriva2010spring.fsa id=0,dest=/dev/sda1 (restore)