On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:08 PM, 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?
SFTP + FileZilla is an easy way to do this graphically. FileZilla is a cross-platform FTP client that tracks succesful & failed transfers. The failed transfers can be reprocessed with just a few clicks. -Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
