Linux and data storage?

[Sina Bahram]

If I may humbly suggest?

Fxp, or flash xp as I think it is...is a windows tool that allows someone to
connect to one ftp, then connect to the other ftp...and then say, FTP A,
copy stuff to FTP B....then all you have to do is sit back and let the data
packets flow...it doesn't go through your system at all: so you could
transfer information at any speed, only limited by the two ftp servers, not
by your own connection.

*shrug* is there a linux equivalent to this tool/protocall?

Take care,
Sina

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Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 8:51 PM
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Subject: Re: Linux and data storage?

Karen,

You have two bottlenecks, seems to me. One is your connection speed, the
other is nettamer. You can use "tar" on your ISP's system to aggregate those
precious files into one archive, assuming you have the space, and then move
that archive somewhere. Nettamer could retrieve it with its ftp facility,
but it might take forever over a dialup link.

If you had a linux desktop, you could use an ftp client on your desktop,
call it "system A", to move files from "system B" to "system C", assuming
you had the necessary access permissions and such.

Also, you could email stuff to yourself with attachments, although nettamer
is a little weird about attachments, and then you have filesize limits.

Finally, if you had a Linux desktop and a high speed connection you would be
home free. Just grab all those files quickly with an FTP client, move them
to your desktop, and burn them to a CD if you need to.

My Linux system uses two 40 GB disks, one of which is used extensively to
backup stuff on the other. Not exactly a raid system, but heavily redundant.
I do use CD backups too once in a blue moon.

Your DOS desktop has limited HD storage. A Linux desktop would not. I have a
DOS partition of 500 MB on each of my two 40 GB hard discs, just in case,
but have not booted into DOS in several years. For my own situation, I
cannot imagine ever being able (psychologically) to return to DOS and
Nettamer.

Chuck