Giovanni, I recommend that you archive your critical files in a zip or tarball. You can use InfoZip's WiZ (http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/WiZ.html), which is a free GUI based archiving tool that runs on many OSs including win32. The best compression I know of would be using bzip2 (ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/bzip2/v102/bzip2-102-x86-win32.exe). I think both of these archiving tools offer password encryption if you need to encrypt the file for privacy/security.
Once you have your critical files archived, you can upload it somewhere safe. I can offer you a few GBs of filespace and I'm willing to burn a few GBs to CDs for you if need be. If you can wait until the next Perks meeting and the size of the archive is not too big, we could do it then. I figure we could easily transfer ~700MB of data from your laptop to mine and burn the CD with 2 hours, if we are both using 100bT NICs. I'll bring the crossover cable. Like Ed asked, it would be helpful to know how much data you need to archive, and also how fast your network card is. Also, do you have broadband Internet access at home? John Hebert On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 16:31:18 -0600, Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giovanni, > > How much data are you talking about? I have a parallel port zip drive, an > external USB 2.0 hard drive with about 15 gig free and a burner in each > of my two desktop machines. I am a Linux newbie but also pretty > determined as well. I am sure we can figure out some way to get the data > from one medium to another. Does your laptop have a NIC and/or USB port? > What OS(s) are your running? > > Ed Richards > > > > At 04:05 PM 2/23/03 -0600, you wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> I am in great need of backing up my crucial files from my laptop to a >> CD. The laptop has been acting strange lately, and I am afraid of >> losing such valuable data as family pics, some software, and docs... >> Unfortunately, I don't have a CD burner at home, and I can't think >> of any other ways of backing up my files... >> >> Would anyone have a suggestion on what I can do? BRLUG is the only >> technical group that I know in Baton Rouge... If anyone would be >> willing to help me out, I would greatly appreciate such thing! >> >> Warmest Regards, >> >> Giovanni Tairov >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -- John Hebert System Engineer I T Group, Inc. http://www.it-group.com
