Linux and data storage?

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi again
Thanks for the command!
I will want to know this regardless, and am guessing, I hope correctly, 
that it is only my home directory, not the data stored in pine for me.
Thanks again,
Karen

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Hi, Karen:
>
> You don't say how much data you have there? Issue the following command
> from your home directory to find out how much data you have:
>
> du -ms .
>
> It will give you a number in megabytes. It may take some time to run.
>
> Now, to your question. You ask whether it would be easy. Well, yes, it
> might be, or it might not be.
>
> It's not likely to be pleasant to move copious amounts of data over a
> dial up modem connection, but there are easy technologies that can
> insure you get a true copy even if it takes some time to accomplish.
>
> I'm thinking of rsync.
>
> And, yes, you are on the right track. Hardware and software can be
> replaced. One's work/data files cannot be so readily replaced. So, it is
> wise to have one's important data in two physical clocations.
>
> But let's start out by defining how much "a lot" is.
>
> Karen Lewellen writes:
>> 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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