Re: Linux and data storage?

From: "hank" <hank@hanksmith.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Linux and data storage?
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 17:37:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <004d01c4a42a$23f05070$0400a8c0@hankwin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.61.0409262010360.21468@server2.shellworld.net>

where do you get your shell service from>?
am curious.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Lewellen" <klewellen@shellworld.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 5:23 PM
Subject: Linux and data storage?

> 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
>
>
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