Linux and data storage?

[Karen Lewellen]

Not for me!
it is one idea among many.
i am sorry if you are confused though janina.


On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Exactly why I'm on Sinna's case about this. He's clouded and confused
> things.
>
> Luke Davis writes:
>> Um, if you have FTP access on both, why would you need that tool?  Why not
>> just telnet to Shellworld, from there FTP to your web server (sftp or scp
>> or rsync would be better), and transfer the files directly?
>>
>>  On Sun, 26 Sep
>> 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>>
>>> 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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