Linux and data storage?

[Karen Lewellen]

Thanks Luc,
I will read the rsync manual pa ge before trying anything to be sure.
and I am happy you have not had this experience, indeed i have, and I am 
not talking about floppies either.  I would not be this firm without  the 
reason of experience.
Thanks for your wisdom none the less.
Karen


On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Luke Davis wrote:

> 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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