Hey Chris, As a backup to your backup, you may consider using your gmail account and emailing them to yourself... if you have broadband available as I expect that it'll be a fair bit of data.
( As an aside, image formats are as compressed as they can be already, so zip/tar/gzip/bzip2 etc are only useful for organizational purposes, not saving space ) The chances of losing the primary system, your backup and google mail at the same time is pretty small. Well, if it happens I expect that your files will be the last of your worries! OK, the FBI and all will be looking at them, so add in a few spicy ones to cheer them up (: Cheers, Steve On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:02:27 +1300 chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you again Nick. > At my age it is difficult to sort the sheep from the goats. > > I did not understand that tcp/ip was in fact a network protocol. > > I will run a google. > Thanks to you and all the other cluggers for your help in my small > crisis > My wife's files and wood turning photographs are now safe on the > portable hard drive; well as much as can be, and the systems have been > backed up. > > I am very grateful for all your help and good will > > regards to all Chris Thomas > > On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 08:46 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf > > > > Any basic text on TCP/IP > > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:03 AM, chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thank you. I have the system up now and running thanks to the help > > > offered from clug members. > > > Can you point me to some reading regarding the points you have raised. > > > > > > Regards Chris Thomas > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 14:59 +1300, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: > > >> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > >> > 169.254. etc is not a real IP address. It is one allocated by zeroconf > > >> > or similar when you cannot get a real world ip address. Set them to > > >> > 192.168.1.x > > >> > > >> If all these machines are running zeroconf, and there is no DHCP > > >> server active, then they will probably already have given themselves > > >> link-local addresses and names. > > >> > > >> As Nick says, the IP addresses will be something like 169.154.x.y > > >> > > >> Whether you use DHCP, static addressing, or zeroconf, the machines > > >> should be reachable by name where the names will be <hostname>.local > > >> E.g. machine1.local laptop.local etc. No DNS server should be > > >> required. > > >> > > >> regards > > >> > > >> Eliot > > > > > > > -- Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
