Linux and data storage?

Karen Lewellen klewellen at shellworld.net
Tue Sep 28 07:13:10 EDT 2004


Thanks by the way for the site in your note above.
They are not using freebds, and do not know how to install even the basic 
things.  Pine is at 4.0 or4.1 and even it does not function properly.
I do not trust their limited knowledge to compress data that may or may 
not be  decompressed later.  it is red hat that they use...they think.
Karen

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Gregory Nowak wrote:

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> Even if they're using freebsd, tar, bzip, and bzip2 should still be
> there. These are not gnu/linux-specific utilities.
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> Greg
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> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 07:23:08PM -0500, Luke Davis wrote:
>> Do you want a backup, or a mirror?  If you want a backup, then you will
>> never have to expand that data--it is just there in case something goes
>> seriously wrong on Shellworld.
>>
>> If they are running Linux, then they have tar.  If they are running Linux,
>> then they have gzip.
>> As for bzip2, that may be questionable, but if you have shell access, you
>> could always just check.
>>
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