On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:08:33 -0500 "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I am in a situation where a friend of mine wants to send tons of > photos to me. Internet connection being what it is regarding > stability, I am aiming to a method where the photos' transfer can be > resumed if the connection breaks and is recreated. > > Keeping security in mind, I am thinking of asking him to send them > over to my machine, running Debian Testing, over SSH once I create an > account for him (we do not want to go for mailing a DVD if we can > help it). > > Now I wanted to know what is the best way to go about this. He is not > a computer savvy and does not use Linux. Otherwise I would have just > asked him to send it over rsync via ssh. > > For now what I have in mind is this: > 1. Ask him to make archive volumes of the data, say 10 MB each. > 2. Ask him to install the GUI scp client on his windows box. > 3. Create account for him on my Debian router machine. > 4. Ask him to start scp transfer of those volumes. They may number 300 > in all (around 3GB of data). > 5. If the connection breaks, he can know right away which was the last > volume being transfered and can resume from there. > > His upload speed is around 460 kbps. For 3GB of data, we are talking > around 14 hours needed for the transfer. > > Any other suggestions or useful advice? Unless there is any pressing need for you to use SSH, I would recommend you temporary set up FTP for him instead. It is much faster for file transfer than SFTP/SCP. FTP can also resume broken transfers. Also I see no need for him to create an archive of data on 10 MB each. If you prefer the archive method, I would suggest you make him zip the files up in say 3 big files, 1 Gb each, and let him transfer those using FTP. Quick, easy and resumable. > I also thought of asking him to install cygwin to get SSH and rsync, > but I do not want to complicate this further for him. However, if > there is a package for Windows which install the minimal packages > needed for ssh and rsync and is easy to install, that could be an > option. > > Thanks, > ->HS > > > > -- > > Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding > newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just > filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted > without ever having been read. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
