Linux and data storage?

[Karen Lewellen]

because I do not have a choice Luc, it is my only other ftp location.
I was supposed to have a Linux machine months ago to forestal this, but 
the person  has not held up their end, and clearly has no plans to do 
this.
It was not until  ken  almost lost everything i have up here that i 
realized something must be done.
I am not discussing this any further.  No zip of this data.  Why are you 
insisting upon trying to force this issue?
btw, I did not read all of your post.  I am very  busy at work and only 
opened it at all out of respect for you.
Karen

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Luke Davis wrote:

> 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:
>>> 
>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>>> Hash: SHA1
>>>> 
>>>> 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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