Linux and data storage?

[Karen Lewellen]

I will have no problem transferring the data as i desire.   I have 200 gb 
of storage over there,  another 1.8 or so is not going to be noticed. 
Besides i hope it will be temporary with my taking it down to my own 
system at some point.

If janina is to be believed it is my system, I have two of them remember?
I plan to inform them that the data is going to be transfered, and as they 
have a rather simple idea of   the shell setup, light years behind 
shellworld,  transferring the data as i wish is what I pay for in a sense.
The risk is any of the data not being compressed properly, a chance with 
any such program, and one I choose not to take
yes the data is still here....now, but it might not have been very easily 
indeed.
Karen

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Luke Davis wrote:

> You forget what tar is.  It adds everything together, so it compresses far 
> better, than any of it would individually.
> For example, a gig of text, and maybe a third of binary data, can compress 
> down to about 350 MB.
>
> Now, keep in mind the system: does Shellworld admin, want you moving a Gig of 
> data across its connection, when there is a choice to compress it into a few 
> hundred MB?
>
> Yes, it is your data, but it is not your system.
>
> You still haven't explained what the risk is.  Additionally, it is not as if 
> the original data was not still there.
>
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
>> 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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