Linux and data storage?

[Karen Lewellen]

As I have said before, if I had a Linux setup of my own already this would 
be a different situation.  However I do not,  have many many reasons 
personally not to want to risk the second site for a compression transfer 
and prefer to error on the side of comfort in this case.  hopefully  when 
i want to take this data down from the second site to my own system I will 
have the setup space and no need for so much caution.
Karen

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

> Steve,
>
> I have been thinking about why folks get so gun shy with respect to such
> reliable technologies. I think sometimes it originates with the all too
> common disasters that come from working in the DOS world, or Windows
> world, where there has always been this utterly stupid and risky
> business about "text mode" vs. "binary mode" for file transfers and
> compression. Making the wrong choice here can really cause you to shoot
> yourself in the foot.
>
> For me, one of the enormous advantages of saying bye bye to the
> Microsoft atrocities is the ability to forget about that distinction,
> text mode vs. binary mode. Data are compressed and uncompressed,
> uploaded and downloaded, without ever once having to give a second
> thought to those modes, which are nowadays only booby traps.
>
> But I have no idea how one overcomes being nervous about the matter.
> Maybe we need a mailing list for "recovering MS-holics!"
>
> Chuck
>
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
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>> Ahh this fear of compression! Can't say for sure about over the net
>> between the two machines (shell world and your web host) but I know
>> for sure that files transferred via a 56K modem are compressed in
>> transit and then decompressed as they spill onto your computer so at
>> the day you wish to pull those files down to a local machine of yours
>> over the modem, guess what, compression will be there like it or not.
>> If I were a system administrator preparing to transfer someone's files
>> over to another location, I would use tar, compress it with the gzip
>> or bzip2 option and ship that over and then do likewise to unpack it;
>> no questions asked.  This situation is 100% reliable! I havenever
>> lost data in the 20 years I've been computing due to any file
>> compression.  Now since rsync has been discussed here as a viable
>> method of transferring files and keeping them in sync in the future, I
>> recall there being a "compress on the fly" option and I would
>> incourage its use simply to move things more quickly.  But that is an
>> option in itself.
>
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