Linux and data storage?

[Janina Sajka]

I don't know specifically about her shell provider, but it would be
customary that she could build her .tar.bz2 archive under /tmp and then
rscync it off.

I'm willing to bet, though, that she has far less than a CD ROM's worth
of data. Perhaps we'll soon see.

Chuck Hallenbeck writes:
> 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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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

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