Linux and data storage?

[Karen Lewellen]

So I too have been told by our site administrator, and  discovered when i 
tired it too.  I am not getting  much smaller by compressing, and as I 
cannot insure the decompression options is there and sound, I do not wish 
to try this.


On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Sean M McMahon wrote:

> Someone will undoubtedly correct me about this, zip does not compress
> music files more then they are already compressed.  Zip is a loss-less
> compression format.  All your data could be there.  Yes in answer to your
> question, there are methods which have been suggested which will meet your
> goals and not compress your data.
>
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> Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net>
> Sent by: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
> 09/27/2004 04:21 PM
> Please respond to "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
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>        To:     "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
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>        Subject:        Re: Linux and data storage?
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> Much of this is music materials and the like which do not compress well
> when using those programs  as I have tried.
> I do not want to chance it.
> Call me a chicken if you wish but it is my data.  Will the methods
> suggested do this, no compression involved?
> Karen
>
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Luke Davis wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>>
>>> I have no intention of risking a zip of any of these files, nor do i
> want
>>> to
>>
>> Risking a zip?  What does that mean?  Where is the risk?  Gnu Zip (not
> PK
>> Zip), and Bzip2, are highly stable formats.
>> Tar is an archiving method used for decades on unix.  In fact, Linux
> uses
>> bzip2 as its kernel format these days.
>>
>> This exact method is how many of us who backup shellworld user data, do
> it,
>> on a regular basis--tar archived into bzip, or gzip.
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