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

Post by senthil_rajasek » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 10:35 PM UTC

terramex wrote: post #131

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.

Post by mc10 » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 10:36 PM UTC

3s wrote: post #141

libertine wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes I wonder if the bad connotation due to piracy made this protocol not standard (in a sense, that's not widely adopted, and people need dedicated clients, instead of it working for example in browsers). I don't know enough, maybe it has security issues, or some limits... but the fact is that it's still widely used, by tech literate people, so it still stands the test of time and it must be doing something rig…

WebTorrent [1] can be used to run BitTorrent on the web. It's actually integrated into the Brave browser which is a nice feature. Other browsers might catch on soon. [1] https://webtorrent.io/

Post by simonebrunozzi » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 10:38 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…

Post by rglullis » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 10:42 PM UTC

aargh_aargh wrote: post #127

libertine wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes I wonder if the bad connotation due to piracy made this protocol not standard (in a sense, that's not widely adopted, and people need dedicated clients, instead of it working for example in browsers). I don't know enough, maybe it has security issues, or some limits... but the fact is that it's still widely used, by tech literate people, so it still stands the test of time and it must be doing something rig…

> people need dedicated clients, instead of it working for example in browsers "Version 9.0 [...], released on June 20, 2006" "Opera introduced [...] a built-in BitTorrent client" [1] That's history now, of course, courtesy of today's browser monoculture. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Opera_web_brows...

Post by gpm » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 10:44 PM UTC

Matthias247 wrote: post #75

ashton314 wrote: post #55

Netcat: $ nc -l 4242 > dest And then on the sending end: $ nc hostname 4242 This works great when you just need to get a file of any size from one machine to another and you’re both on the same network. Are used this a lot at one of my offices to schlep the files around between a few of the machines we had.

and if you are not worried about corruption. You might at least want to run a checksum on both ends and compare them.