Linux and data storage?

[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi Karen, Larry, et al,

	To answer your original question, Karen, if you get your linux machine up and running you can use 'rsync' to transfer selective file/directory/sub-directoies to/from the shell account to your linux box. That is, if the shellworld machine has 'rsync' available.

	For your question Larry, if you want to dual boot between  Linux and another OS you can do that easily using one of the boot managers (lilo or grub). If you are worried about losing mail while in the other OS, just let your ISP spool the mail while you are not up in Linux. You can do that by using a pop retrieval program like 'fetchmail' to retrieve mail periodically from your isp, or just put a '.forward' file in the home directory of your shell account to push mail to your mta (exim or whichever you like). You then just rename the .forward file to something else while booted to the other os on your local machine. Mail then waits in your mailbox on the ISP until you enable forwarding again.

	There are just so many ways to do things in Linux! As others have mentioned, ftp, local redundancy, various backup methods, etc. It is very much worth the effort to move to Linux... <grin>

	HTH,

	--terry

On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 06:36:58PM -0700, Hart Larry wrote:
> I agree with Karen, these last 30 hours on Shellworld should be a wakeup 
> call for all of us.  While we have our files-and-data back again, I should 
> really consider eventually handling pine and all the features of a shell 
> right here locally.  I suppose however, if I were running some mail server 
> software, I would almost never be able to boot the machine in to windows to 
> run openbook, as the mail server would not be collecting incoming messages?
> Back in January, when I left CTS, another shell provider, I tried 
> downloading everything, but I may not have it all.  I was thinking earlier 
> that I was going to have to move items around.  Last night we tried logging 
> in to cts, but I think they are gone?
> Hart
> 
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