[TriLUG] Ot: File Transfer

[William Sutton]

While I think about it...see if they can't gzip -9 it.  Depending on the 
repetition of the text, it could condense quite a bit.  Then wget 
--continue the file to a linux box....that way if it times out in transit, 
you can pick it back up where it left off.

William

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Greg Brown wrote:

> If you can't do that, get a md5sum of the file and sftp it and hope
> for the best.  I've run into some problems with sftp'ing big files,
> though.
> 
> Here's a thought: how about a private bit torrent network.  Large
> files are no big deal for torrent.  I have no idea how to go about
> setting one up, though.
> 
> Better yet, is your client local?  Drive over and copy from the LAN at
> 100 or 1000 meg.  I've been known to do that before from time to time.
> 
> The file transfer itself would be trivial: simply set up a share on
> your XP notebook and mount that share on the Mac via smb://<ip of
> notebook>.  Put in the username and password for the XP account,
> select the destination share on the XP laptop, and copy away.  I do
> that at work all the time.
> 
> If you are truly sick, you can create a tunnel with SSH from the Mac
> to a Linux/BSD/Samba machine on the Internet then tunnel SMB over SSH.
>  It's ugly, but it works and I have copyed large files around the
> globe via this method.
> 
> Greg
> 
> On 6/16/05, Dean Price <deano at price4.org> wrote:
> > Good point... forgot that one...
> > Welp... given it is mac(bsd... ahem)... one could concieveably break it
> > down in 4gb chunks then use cat on a linux box to put 'em back together...
> > 
> > Thank You,
> > Dean Price
> > deano at price4.org
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Jason Faulkner wrote:
> > 
> > >>As for NTFS on MAC... not sure
> > >>I would format it VFAT(FAT32) so I could take it almost anywhere.( MAC,
> > >>Linux, XP, etc.)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >vfat doesn't do files > 4gb .... so, hrm.
> > >
> > >I don't know what FS I'd use in your case, that's a nasty situation.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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