Linux and data storage?

[Janina Sajka]

What do you mean "Is there a Linux equivalent?"

Have you forgotten where networking was invented? It certainly wasn't
invented on Windows, Sina. Sheesh. What a question.

This is trivial on Linux. We've done it for years. There are several
ways to accomplish it.

Get a clue.

Sina Bahram writes:
> 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
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> -----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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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

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