Linux and data storage?

[Karen Lewellen]

Thanks, It may.
While the Linux machine I have been waiting for nearly 6months or more 
seems to be nonexistent, I know more than a few people who use windows 
grin.
Karen


On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Sina Bahram wrote:

> Fxp can be found at
>
> www.flashfxp.com
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Take care,
> Sina
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Karen Lewellen
> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 9:15 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: RE: Linux and data storage?
>
> hmm,
> Let me be sure I follow you.
> This is a program that runs in windows, that would let me move the contents
> of my shellworld workspace,  <i have ftp here too of course> to say the
> storage on my website<where I also  have ftp,> and that is not located on
> shellworld?
> if all this is true, where can i find this tool?
> Karen
>
> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Sina Bahram wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> No trees were destroyed in sending this message; however, a large
>> number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
>> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
>> On Behalf Of Chuck Hallenbeck
>> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 8:51 PM
>> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>> 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
>>
>>
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