Linux and data storage?

[Luke Davis]

Karen, you just said, that you have a web server, not on Shellworld, 
whereon you could store your data.  Janina is talking about FTPing 
directly from Shellworld to that, as I also suggested in another message.

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote:

> 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
>>>> 
>>>> 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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>> 
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>> Accessibility Workgroup
>> Free Standards Group (FSG)
>> 
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