Linux and data storage?

[Luke Davis]

Karen, you could find out all of these things yourself, without their 
intervention--see Janina's latest message on this thread.  The compression 
is also your issue--it's not them you have to trust to uncompress it, it 
is you who has to be (dis)trusted to decompress it.

If you are unsure of yourself, I suggest you learn a little before you do 
anything.  Doing it that way because somebody told you to, with your own 
emotional biases coloring the degree to which you follow the advice given, 
is a dangerous thing, without knowing exactly what you are doing.

Read the rsync manual page.  That will give you your syntax.

Re compression: in ten years of compressing everything from text 
documents, to operating systems, to entire file systems, to boot disks, I 
have never, I say again: never, had a compressed file, either PK zip, Gnu 
zip, or bzip2, spontaineously corrupt.

Given your fear, I imagine that you have, but in those circumstances, was 
it the compressed nature of the data, or the compression medium? 
Floppies, for example, have a tendancy to lose data.


On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote:

> 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.
>> 
>> Greg
>> 
>> 
>> 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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