Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

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Post by terramex » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 9:58 PM UTC

geocrasher wrote: post #57

5GB on my local network: Windows File Share, Rsync, or HTTP depending on source/destination 5GB on Internet: Upload to my OVH VPS and HTTP or Rsync it to its destination 10TB, local or Internet: Physical Hard Drive. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes! https://www.tidbitsfortechs.com/2013/09/never-underestimate-... And since you now buy 1TB micro SD cards, so perhaps I'd split th…

10TB, local or Internet: Physical Hard Drive.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes!

In Poland there is an option to send package via train for 8$. Just go to station and give package to conductor/train guard, few hours later receiver can get it at destination station. Sending HDDs full of raw video footage this way is very popular among video editors here.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

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Post by tobyhinloopen » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 9:59 PM UTC

Either via Google Drive or iCloud Drive. If it doesn’t fit on these, use physical media

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

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Post by wheels » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 9:59 PM UTC

I have Syncthing syncing to a "/shared" directory on my private web server. If the file is under the 20-ish GB I have free there, that's good enough.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

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Post by gpm » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 9:59 PM UTC

5G from a kubernetes pod: netcat

Send help... no seriously... how do I upload a file from a server I have a shell on but can't easily open ports to or install software on (and where the built in cp tool fails on big files...)?

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

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Post by myself248 » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 10:00 PM UTC

auxym wrote: post #14

hotwire wrote: post #9

A station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway...

No one makes station wagons anymore, except luxury european makers :(

Aside from the already-mentioned Subaru Outback, there's the Buick Regal TourX, the Mini Cooper Clubman, and I'll contend that the Dodge Journey is more stationwagon than SUV; it's on the Avenger sedan platform.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

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Post by phendrenad2 » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 10:02 PM UTC

S3

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

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Post by superkuh » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 10:03 PM UTC

I have run a internet reachable whatever.com webserver from my home desktop computer for 20 years. I just copy or softlink the file to a place in ~/www/ and give out the corresponding web link. I have a couple nginx locations prepared with pre-existing bandwith throttles so it's a matter of soft linking to the appropriate ~/www/dirwithassociatedrate/.

If it's for more than 1 person I upload it to a VPS if it's small (<20 GB) or make a torrent if it's not.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 10:07 PM UTC

gpm wrote: post #134

5G from a kubernetes pod: netcat Send help... no seriously... how do I upload a file from a server I have a shell on but can't easily open ports to or install software on (and where the built in cp tool fails on big files...)?

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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

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Post by beginrescueend » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 10:08 PM UTC

Inside a company, I like transfer.sh, which is like an open source version of file.io - * https://github.com/dutchcoders/transfer.sh

That's good for the 5G +/- file transfer.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

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Post by simonw » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 10:08 PM UTC

I use Transmit on macOS to upload to an S3 bucket and then send them a link.