Linux and data storage?

[Luke Davis]

Tell me this: if they are so very incompetent, why are you trusting your 
data to them at all?  Also, data corruption, of any kind, is more likely 
to happen to two gig of data, than it is to a far smaller singular file. 
In fact, with a single file, you could always make two copies. In fact, 
once you get it over there, you can decompress it immediately, and keep an 
uncompressed version.  It is only the transfer of that much data, about 
which you should be concerned.

Then again, maybe you should just buy the extra bandwidth from Shellworld, 
and not worry about it.

You can do what ever you wish, of course, but you asked for advice, and 
you now have to live with receiving it.


  On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote:

> Its my reality and my experience with those who run this site.  Whatever my 
> reasons, such is my choice.
> I have all the experience with those running this service to know that i 
> would rather not risk it.
> better decompressed and  safe than  compressed and flawed in a way i do not 
> discover until after the fact.
> The risks are both small and I have chosen the one I prefer.
> I do not have to give you my reasons or even make them clear to you.  you may 
> disagree all you wish but It will make know difference to my final choice.
> Consider Luc, Ken knows what he is doing and has lost every scrap of data up 
> here once before, and almost did it again over the weekend.  He knows what he 
> is doing and  has done this.  I am not going to chance  this with people who 
> openly admit they are not that informed about Linux, and install even lynx 
> incorrectly.
> Karen
>
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Luke Davis wrote:
>
>> This is true.  She seems to be worried, that they won't be there, on an 
>> old version of Redhat.
>> 
>> As I said earlier--she seems to have an irrational fear of 
>> compression--in short: a fobia: an irrational fear, not based upon 
>> reality.
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Greg
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