Hi all, This is an odd one, so I hope I ask it in such a way to make sense. I do not have a Linux machine. I have been trying to get this, and thought I had one in the he works but it seems that party either made up the machines they were offering, or for some other reason is not coming through. In any case, I do use a Linux shell service extensively. I fear almost too extensively, as you will understand in a moment. The OS on the system i use mostly is dos, and I use nettamer to telnet to my Linux shell. In the workspace of my shell service i have a great deal of irreplaceable files and programs. I eave them up here, for ease, but I just was reminded that this may be a venerable state of affairs. Fortunately when the server went down nothing was lost or so it seems, but I have a serious factor to consider. My question has two parts. first, is there a way to move large amounts of data stored in the workspace of a Linux shell service to another location in tact, with relative ease, and without taking all of the data on the entire system? second, if my machine was also a Linux one, would this kind of storage be easy to do? As I said before I do not have such a machine, but this has shaken me up enough that if a full Linux or Linux/dos or Linux/windows machine would give me some firm safe backup, I will have to start advertising for someone to build this for me and encurl the expense. I have too busy a professional life to do this myself, and would rather pay someone with the skills than lose valuable time trying to re-invent the wheel. Thanks, Karen
