Thanks Chuck, I wold rather run the risk of an act of God, than the risk of poorly compressed data. As I have stated clearly, I am not as of yet a true Linux user save for my shell experiences. i do, however, know that the people running my site's server have not installed everything nor everything correctly. i do not want a compressed file i cannot decompress later. Also, When I want the data transfered to my own system, I can compress at that point. I would know what decompression tools I have on my end at least, once I have a Linux system of some kind. Karen On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Karen, > > The choice of whether to compress or not is your choice, of course, but > you should know that the risk you are worried about is virtually > non-existent in most Linux users view. There is another downside to > transferring your data without compression. You will be transferring two > or three times as much data as you would if compressed, it will > therefore take two or three times as long, and will be two or three > times more likely to be encounter transmission errors, system > interruptions, and other acts of God. Those risks are small too, nearly > as small as compression/decompression failures. But the choice is yours, > and either way it will work. > > Chuck > > non- > > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote: > >> 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 >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > -- > The Moon is 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 > >
