Linux and data storage?

[Janina Sajka]

If you have ftp access on two machines, forget Windows, and just log
into one. Launch a good ftp client like ncftp, start the transfer,
and go to bed.

You certainly don't need Windows.

PS: If you use ncftp you could even use bgget (or bgput) to run the
transfers in background, which means you could log off and your files
would still get transfered.

Now, does Windows have that? Huh, Sina?

Karen Lewellen writes:
> 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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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

janina at freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040