Janina, We shall not see quite yet grin. It seems that there is no -m option in our edition of the "du" program. I ran it in this way: du -ms I was told that following: illegal usage du -m with a list of other command line options. I have asked our system administrator how the program works for us. Karen On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
