Linux and data storage?

[Janina Sajka]

Your "data stored in Pine for you," as you put it, is probably also part
of your home directory. It's probably in a directory called mail.

Never fear. There are ways to exclude the mail directory when you copy
your files into a tar archive file.

The best way to get a number on how much you have to back up, then, is
probably to get a total on your home directory and all its
subdirectories, then do the same thing for the mail directory and
subtract.

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

janina at freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040