Linux and data storage?

[Karen Lewellen]

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On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, hank wrote:

> where do you get your shell service from>?
> am curious.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Lewellen" 
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> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 5:23 PM
> Subject: Linux and data storage?
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>> Hi all,
>> This is an odd one, so I hope I ask it in such a way to make sense.
>> I do not have a Linux machine.  I have been trying to get this, and 
>> thought I had one in the he works but it seems that party either made up 
>> the machines they were offering, or  for some other reason is not coming 
>> through.
>> In any case, I do use a Linux shell service extensively.  I fear almost 
>> too extensively, as you will understand in a moment.
>> The OS on the system i use mostly is dos, and I use nettamer to telnet to 
>> my Linux shell.
>> In the workspace of my shell service i have a great deal of irreplaceable 
>> files and programs.  I eave them up here, for ease, but I just was 
>> reminded that this may be a venerable state of affairs.
>> Fortunately when the server went down nothing was lost or so it seems, 
>> but I have a serious factor to consider.
>> My question has two parts.
>> first, is there a way to move large amounts of data stored in the 
>> workspace of a Linux shell service to another location in tact, with 
>> relative ease,  and without taking all of the data on the entire system?
>> second, if my machine was also a Linux one, would this kind of storage be 
>> easy to do?
>> As I said before I do not have such a machine, but this has shaken me up 
>> enough that if a full Linux or Linux/dos or Linux/windows machine would 
>> give me some firm safe backup, I will have to start advertising for 
>> someone to build this for me and encurl the expense.
>> I have too busy a professional life to do this myself, and would rather 
>> pay someone with the skills than lose valuable time trying to re-invent 
>> the wheel.
>> Thanks,
>> Karen
>> 
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