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Hello Sarah,
A flexible long term solution is a dedicated file server for moving and
storing projects.  When users log into any of our computers (including the
Leica) their file share is automatically mounted through Samba so it
appears as a normal harddrive on the workstation.  After collecting images
and saving locally (for the sake of speed) they are easily transferred to
the file server via drag and drop.  After the data is copied or moved to
the server the user can access this data via FTP from anywhere in the
world; naturally moving large datasets is only practical on a fast network
connection, however.  It's a nice solution because it is backed up daily,
and users' LCS profiles are stored remotely on the server as well so we can
reformat and upgrade the Leica software easily or even swap to a backup
ghosted harddrive in a matter of minutes and users' preferences and data
are maintained.  The downside is that you'll need someone knowledgeable in
they ways of system administration to rig a setup like this.
         A makeshift solution if your workstation is networked is to make a
users' local directory on the Leica machine shareable.  In this scheme,
users who are on the local (university) network should be able to access
their data using a remote PC or MacOSX or Linux w/ Samba.  This requires a
network configured for windows networking and someone with admin
priveledges on the workstation to due the configuration.
         We have a couple people running around with USB 2.0 and Firewire
portable harddrives also.   They love them and they appear to work very
well, however people have to supply their own drives.
-Karl

At 04:33 PM 10/22/2002 -0400, you wrote:
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>Hi-
>This is totally off-topic, but have any of you used writable DVDs to
>store data?  I have people generating files too large for CDs.  We're
>running linux on a PC.  Or, are there any other good options out there
>for data storage (files about 1 GB).
>Thanks-
>Sarah
>
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>Sarah Locknar, PhD
>Director, Neuroscience COBRE Imaging Core
>University of Vermont
>802-656-0413
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Karl Garsha
Light Microscopy Specialist
Imaging Technology Group
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign
405 North Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
Room B650J
Tel: (217) 244-6292
Fax: (217) 244-6219
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