Hi, I would not use nettamer's ftp facilities for this. i have a great ftp client called agents, which is fast and clean, but again i am using a dialup so am limited via the 56k connection speed. would tar work with my isp as a ppp/ip connection, and in dos? Not holding on to dos so much as seeking a fast solution. as a telnet to shellworld, nettamer is wonderful. as the best solution, I realize its drawbacks, but I know no one with the Linux expertise at this end. So while the Linux setup with a high speed connection sounds marvelous, I am still short a technical mind for this. Thanks for the tar idea, where might i find this? Karen On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Karen, > > You have two bottlenecks, seems to me. One is your connection speed, the > other is nettamer. You can use "tar" on your ISP's system to aggregate > those precious files into one archive, assuming you have the space, and > then move that archive somewhere. Nettamer could retrieve it with its > ftp facility, but it might take forever over a dialup link. > > If you had a linux desktop, you could use an ftp client on your desktop, > call it "system A", to move files from "system B" to "system C", > assuming you had the necessary access permissions and such. > > Also, you could email stuff to yourself with attachments, although > nettamer is a little weird about attachments, and then you have filesize > limits. > > Finally, if you had a Linux desktop and a high speed connection you > would be home free. Just grab all those files quickly with an FTP > client, move them to your desktop, and burn them to a CD if you need to. > > My Linux system uses two 40 GB disks, one of which is used extensively > to backup stuff on the other. Not exactly a raid system, but heavily > redundant. I do use CD backups too once in a blue moon. > > Your DOS desktop has limited HD storage. A Linux desktop would not. I > have a DOS partition of 500 MB on each of my two 40 GB hard discs, just > in case, but have not booted into DOS in several years. For my own > situation, I cannot imagine ever being able (psychologically) to return > to DOS and Nettamer. > > Chuck > > > On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > -- > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (97% of Full) > Home page at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > Speakfreely address 24.105.197.112:2074 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
