Linux and data storage?

[Karen Lewellen]

Janina,
We shall not see quite yet grin.  It seems that there is no -m option in 
our edition of the "du" program.
  I ran it in this way:
du -ms
I was told that  following:
illegal usage du -m
with a list of other command line options.
I have asked our system administrator how the program works for us.
Karen

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:

> 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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