Linux and data storage?

[Karen Lewellen]

  Hi janina,
Perhaps you did not read all of my post, but again I only have one 
machine.
If the program suggested does not require my system, but does require 
windows, anyone living anywhere that I know an complete the task for me it 
seems.  but your suggestion involves my having two computers which I have 
said I do not have.
Karen

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:

> 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
>>>
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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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