Linux and data storage?

[Janina Sajka]

On the theory that you should crawl before walking or running, you might
first want to establish that rsync is available at both ends. I would
suggest using the command line to find out, not the telephone to first
tier tech support who will likely be over their heads with such
questions.

Commands like:

uname

will tell you what OS/version that computer is running.

A command like:

which

will tell you whether the executable you want is available.

It's likely you will need to set up ssh for your user identity at both
ends in order to accomplish the transfer, and you're probably well
advised to do so regardless just as a good safe computing practice.
Perhaps you've done this already, but I haven't noted this in your
posts.

Then, too, it would be helpful to know your username on both ends, else
any help that someone here gives wwould be more of the form [user.id].
Ditto for the system address.

Lastly, it would be smart, I think, to do a test transaction of a
single, smallish file, before attempting the full job so that you can
work out the kinks in your command more easily.

PS: You can check the version of most software installed very directly
from the command line. You don't need those first-tier tech people. It's
usually '[executable] -v' or '[executable --version' or perhaps with a
-V.

PPS: The man page for rsync is recommended reading. It's one of the
better man pages in the man tree.

Karen Lewellen writes:
> May i have the command line for rsync please?
> If it has been given, would someone mind reposting it?
> Thanks very much!
> Karen
> <who could just look this up of course grin.>
> 
> 
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, 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.
> >
> >On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> >
> >>I have not been given a site where I can compare distributions with each
> >
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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

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