Linux and data storage?

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi,
I would not use nettamer's ftp facilities for this.  i have a great ftp 
client called agents, which is fast and clean, but again i am using a 
dialup so am  limited via the 56k connection speed.
would tar work with my isp as a ppp/ip connection, and in dos?
Not holding on to dos so much as seeking a fast solution.
as a telnet to shellworld, nettamer is wonderful.  as the best solution, 
I realize its drawbacks, but I know no one with the Linux expertise at 
this end.
So while the Linux setup with a high speed connection sounds marvelous, I 
am still short a technical mind for this.
Thanks for the tar idea, where might i find this?
Karen

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

> 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
>
>
> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
>> 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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