[TriLUG] Ot: File Transfer

[William Sutton]

Well, their willingness to use Linux certainly makes things easier.  I'm 
still in favor of using wget --continue as it will pick up where it left 
off.  Downloading files of any appreciable size leaves the possibility of 
timeout problems, and when that size is in gigabyts....I'd bet on the 
certainty of it happening.  You don't want to start at the beginning every 
time it happens.

You probably also want to automate this job as doing this manually could 
get really boring, really quick.  My suggestion would be Perl + cron, but 
that's because I'm a Perl guy.

William

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Mark Freeze wrote:

> Since this thread has come back up I thought that I'd give an update.
> 
> A few new factors:
> 
> 1. The 'customer' turned out to be my corporate office.
> 2. They are not using OS X.  They haven't upgraded yet.
> 3. The 16GB file is not a text file, it is a backup file.
> 
> I do not share computer systems with my corporate offices. While I run
> a Windows/Linux system (that I am currently trying to parse Windows
> from) they run a very large Mac network.
> 
> Since I moved here, and they have seen a few of the things Linux can
> do, they are trying to integrate some Linux into their environment.
> They want me to set up a dedicated Linux box (or M$ box) to use as a
> repository for their daily backup file, which runs out at about 16GB. 
> The data is already compressed from the mac.  They are willing to
> upgrade my internet service to the 3 Meg service from Wind Channel.
> 
> Before I get 10,000 comments on how they should do things differently,
> please realize that I have no control or input over their systems. 
> I'm just trying to figure out the best way to handle this on my end. 
> I had originally thought that this was a text file from a customer
> until I started asking about specifics.  Their comment to me was
> basically, "We want to use your place as a backup location.  What all
> do we need to do to get that going."
> 
> Given those facts, I'd be glad to hear ideas from anyone.
> 
> Regards,
> Mark.
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/20/05, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:
> > no, the units given were bits and not bytes.  i really meant what i
> > originally posted.
> > Jim Ray, President
> Neuse River Network, Inc.
> 
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> 
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> > 
> > 
> > Dan wrote: 
> > Jim Ray wrote:
> 
>  
> > 16 Gb/1.5Mbps=transfer time not including TCP/IP overhead
> 
> Jim Ray,
> > President
> Neuse River Network, Inc.
>  
> > sorry for the late comment but I've been on vacation... you really
> > meant
> 16GB/1.5Mbps. In this case the case makes a big difference.
> 
> <nothin'
> > but love>
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