From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ip15.shellworld.net ([64.49.204.174] helo=server2.shellworld.net ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CC5WH-0006ar-00 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:07:01 -0400 Received: from server2.shellworld.net (klewellen@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server2.shellworld.net (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i8S070Eo026097 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:07:00 GMT (envelope-from klewellen@shellworld.net) Received: from localhost (klewellen@localhost) by server2.shellworld.net (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id i8S070xD026094 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:07:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: server2.shellworld.net: klewellen owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:07:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Karen Lewellen To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20040920191737.GA6381@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> <20040927010230.GA5154@luke-laptop.yelavich.home> <20040927204002.GZ7958@rednote.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: Linux and data storage? X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:07:01 -0000 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@braille.uwo.ca >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >