Linux and data storage?

[Karen Lewellen]

Sorry, granted a lot of this has gotten off center with all of janina's 
needless chattering.

first, the server that hosts my site has a Linux shell base to it, using 
the red hat distribution  which I know has a different name now.
You pointed out before when we were discussing du that shellworld too uses 
a Linux element to  its foundation, and many of the programs here are Linux 
based and  the services is advertised to some as a Linux shell.
Thus my description.
I am not going to archive so from your explanation, i will not need tar.
so rsynch will accomplish a copy of the  data here save for the mail in my 
inbox at the time of the transfer?
now am I more on point?
Karen

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Luke Davis wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
>> As i said I have no intention of zipping anything, so if i understand 
>> this i
>
> and as I said, that seems a strange fobia.  Regardless, however--
>
>> should be able to do the following.
>> a, create a directory on the server where my site resides, which too is a 
>> Linux based server let's call it backup.
>
> What do you mean, "which too"?  If we are talking about Shellworld, it is not 
> Linux, in any way, shape, or form.
>
>> b, from my shellworld home prompt run sftp or tar or one of the other ftp 
>> based transfer programs  and copy the contents of my home directory to 
>> the so created directory on my website server?
>
> tar is not a transfer program.  It is an archival tool.
>
> Tar takes several files, and copies them into one large file.  It stands for 
> "tape archiver", and was originally used for exactly that purpose.
> For example, if you did:
>
> cd ~/
> tar --exclude ~/mail -cf /tmp/karen_backup.tar ../
>
> Will copy your entire home directory, excepting the mail directory which 
> contains your saved messages, into a contiguous archive, in the file 
> /tmp/karen_backup.tar.  That file may then be moved to another server or the 
> like.
>
> Better, would be to compress it using gzip, or, still better, bzip2, and then 
> transfer it, using sftp, rsync, ftp, ncftp, or some transfer program.
>
>> I do not want to have to specify, so if this does mean  i must coy over 
>> mail and the like so be it.  frankly it might not be so bad an idea given 
>> the folders in that area too.
>
> To copy in the way you suggest, a transfer using rsync, is probably the best 
> option.
>
>> What say you, do I understand the process correctly?
>
> Parts of it, yes.  Other parts, not so much.
>
> Luke
>
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