Hi again Thanks for the command! I will want to know this regardless, and am guessing, I hope correctly, that it is only my home directory, not the data stored in pine for me. Thanks again, Karen On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: > Hi, Karen: > > You don't say how much data you have there? Issue the following command > from your home directory to find out how much data you have: > > du -ms . > > It will give you a number in megabytes. It may take some time to run. > > Now, to your question. You ask whether it would be easy. Well, yes, it > might be, or it might not be. > > It's not likely to be pleasant to move copious amounts of data over a > dial up modem connection, but there are easy technologies that can > insure you get a true copy even if it takes some time to accomplish. > > I'm thinking of rsync. > > And, yes, you are on the right track. Hardware and software can be > replaced. One's work/data files cannot be so readily replaced. So, it is > wise to have one's important data in two physical clocations. > > But let's start out by defining how much "a lot" is. > > Karen Lewellen writes: >> 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 > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Chair > Accessibility Workgroup > Free Standards Group (FSG) > > janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
