Re: [PLUG] how to transfer gigabytes without tech support

[Chad Vogelsong <chad@vogelsong.net>]

Option #1:

Setup and sFTP server on your machine (I use vsftpd).  He should only need to 
type a command, a password and another command to download it.  Just hope that 
there are no cuts in service during the days it will take to transfer that 
amount of data over a Cable/DSL connection (slow upload speed usually).

He would just have to type a command like:
$ ftp username@server.ip.address
password:  the-password-you-give-him
get filename.tar.gz

Wait 1-3 days, depending on speed.

Option #2

Another way would be to give him an SSH account on your computer.  Put the file 
in his home directory.  Then it's just 1 command he has to type.

scp username@server.ip.address:~/filename.tar.gz ~/
password: the-password-you-give-him

Since you probably already have SSH installed on your computer, the 2nd one is 
probably easier.  It's also more secure IMHO.

-Chad


Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> I have 14 GB of data I want to give someone.  He's on MacOS X.  I
> thought to do rsync via ssh, but talking him through certificates and
> terminal things is becoming too painful.  Simple things fail that I
> would see if I were there, but I'm not and his descriptions omit
> little details that he has no way of knowing are critical.
>
> Next thought, make it available for http.  So I tar it up.  But apache
> refuses to serve a 14 GB tar archive, saying it's too big.  (Weirdly,
> this causes a directory to disappear, too: directory foo/ is visible
> until overly large foo.tar is present, then they both disappear from
> the directory listing that apache generates!)
>
> Any thoughts on how to do this as simply as possible?
>
>
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