[wellylug] Visiting Linux user needs help with a backup...
Sam Pearson
sgp at strikecommand.com
Wed Jan 14 13:02:01 NZDT 2004
Hello Wellyluggers,
I'm from the UK, and am spending a few weeks here in Wellington (and enjoying
it very much) while on an extended tour of New Zealand. I have a laptop with
me, running Linux (of course ;-), which I'm using to store photos, my
journal, draft blog posts and the like. I'd like to do a backup of /home,
but I've let the quantity of data outgrow the capacity of my largest CF card
(doh!).
Despite this, I suppose that I could transfer it bit-by-bit at an internet
cafe and get them to burn a CD for me, but I'd have to do this via my digital
camera and it would be a bit of a pain in the butt, so before I resorted to
this I thought I'd post here and ask you guys for some advice.
Specifically, is there is a Linux-friendly place in Welly where I could just
network up the laptop and avoid having to copy bits and pieces between
several different media several times? I have both an ethernet card and a
wireless card which work, although uploading the data via CafeNet will cost a
fair bit in bandwidth charges, as there's around 200megs, IIRC.
I have asked in a couple of places. The bloke in Cybernomad on Courtenay
Place was helpful and said I'd be welcome to try but that I'd have to know
what I was doing - but I'm afraid that I don't really know a great deal about
networking (I'm a hobbyist and not a pro, so my knowledge is more orientated
towards maintaining standalone boxes and connecting to ISPs). Perhaps this
would be easy - I really don't know.
Any advice, rcommendations, or offers of help would be most appreciated!
Have I missed an abvious solution? I may well not be in Wellington for the
date of your next meeting on the 9th of Feb, which I assume might have been
an opportunity (although I might be, it depends on a few things).
In case anyone's interested, the laptop is a little Sony Vaio PCG-C1F running
Slackware 9.
Thanks,
Sam
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Sam Pearson
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