Karen, you could find out all of these things yourself, without their intervention--see Janina's latest message on this thread. The compression is also your issue--it's not them you have to trust to uncompress it, it is you who has to be (dis)trusted to decompress it. If you are unsure of yourself, I suggest you learn a little before you do anything. Doing it that way because somebody told you to, with your own emotional biases coloring the degree to which you follow the advice given, is a dangerous thing, without knowing exactly what you are doing. Read the rsync manual page. That will give you your syntax. Re compression: in ten years of compressing everything from text documents, to operating systems, to entire file systems, to boot disks, I have never, I say again: never, had a compressed file, either PK zip, Gnu zip, or bzip2, spontaineously corrupt. Given your fear, I imagine that you have, but in those circumstances, was it the compressed nature of the data, or the compression medium? Floppies, for example, have a tendancy to lose data. On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Thanks by the way for the site in your note above. > They are not using freebds, and do not know how to install even the basic > things. Pine is at 4.0 or4.1 and even it does not function properly. > I do not trust their limited knowledge to compress data that may or may not > be decompressed later. it is red hat that they use...they think. > Karen > > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Gregory Nowak wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Even if they're using freebsd, tar, bzip, and bzip2 should still be >> there. These are not gnu/linux-specific utilities. >> >> Greg >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 07:23:08PM -0500, Luke Davis wrote: >>> Do you want a backup, or a mirror? If you want a backup, then you will >>> never have to expand that data--it is just there in case something goes >>> seriously wrong on Shellworld. >>> >>> If they are running Linux, then they have tar. If they are running >>> Linux, >>> then they have gzip. >>> As for bzip2, that may be questionable, but if you have shell access, >>> you >>> could always just check. >>> >> >> - -- >> Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iD8DBQFBWLF67s9z/XlyUyARAnBKAKCGn93IlyhQGdu72V9gcxyTPWg7rACfTmWf >> +e2J68TOQ+PewItu2yhkAtI= >> =c1g1 >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >
