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 1CClXF-00049c-00 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:58:50 -0400 Received: from server2.shellworld.net (ldavis@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server2.shellworld.net (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i8TKwn9P068014 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:58:49 GMT (envelope-from ldavis@shellworld.net) Received: from localhost (ldavis@localhost) by server2.shellworld.net (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id i8TKwnW6068011 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:58:49 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: server2.shellworld.net: ldavis owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:58:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Luke Davis To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20040928003402.GD25684@romuald.net.eu.org> Organization: "Tacticus Communications, Inc." 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: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:58:50 -0000 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@EU.org >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iD8DBQFBWLF67s9z/XlyUyARAnBKAKCGn93IlyhQGdu72V9gcxyTPWg7rACfTmWf >> +e2J68TOQ+PewItu2yhkAtI= >> =c1g1 >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >