I don't know specifically about her shell provider, but it would be customary that she could build her .tar.bz2 archive under /tmp and then rscync it off. I'm willing to bet, though, that she has far less than a CD ROM's worth of data. Perhaps we'll soon see. Chuck Hallenbeck writes: > 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 -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
