I will have no problem transferring the data as i desire. I have 200 gb of storage over there, another 1.8 or so is not going to be noticed. Besides i hope it will be temporary with my taking it down to my own system at some point. If janina is to be believed it is my system, I have two of them remember? I plan to inform them that the data is going to be transfered, and as they have a rather simple idea of the shell setup, light years behind shellworld, transferring the data as i wish is what I pay for in a sense. The risk is any of the data not being compressed properly, a chance with any such program, and one I choose not to take yes the data is still here....now, but it might not have been very easily indeed. Karen On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Luke Davis wrote: > You forget what tar is. It adds everything together, so it compresses far > better, than any of it would individually. > For example, a gig of text, and maybe a third of binary data, can compress > down to about 350 MB. > > Now, keep in mind the system: does Shellworld admin, want you moving a Gig of > data across its connection, when there is a choice to compress it into a few > hundred MB? > > Yes, it is your data, but it is not your system. > > You still haven't explained what the risk is. Additionally, it is not as if > the original data was not still there. > > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote: > >> Much of this is music materials and the like which do not compress well >> when using those programs as I have tried. >> I do not want to chance it. >> Call me a chicken if you wish but it is my data. Will the methods >> suggested do this, no compression involved? >> Karen >> >> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Luke Davis wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote: >>> >>>> I have no intention of risking a zip of any of these files, nor do i >>>> want to >>> >>> Risking a zip? What does that mean? Where is the risk? Gnu Zip (not >>> PK Zip), and Bzip2, are highly stable formats. >>> Tar is an archiving method used for decades on unix. In fact, Linux >>> uses bzip2 as its kernel format these days. >>> >>> This exact method is how many of us who backup shellworld user data, do >>> it, on a regular basis--tar archived into bzip, or gzip. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
