[time-nuts] How best to exchange Large files?

David davidwhess at gmail.com
Mon Feb 20 19:05:50 UTC 2012


On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:41:31 +0100, Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch>
wrote:

>On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:52:39 -0800
>"WarrenS" <warrensjmail-one at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Recording high speed and/or long general purpose raw Osc data, the file can become very large. 
>> I'm looking for a simple, fast and easy (and cheap) way to transfer large compressed data files of up to say a 100 MB between time-nuts.
>> I know there are all kinds places one can store large files that others can then have access to,  so I do not want to use the "OLD" way of breaking it up into many small pieces.
>> I do not need to do this very often, so I do not want to sign up for any long term thing or maintain a Friends or face book type thing, 
>> I'm just looking for an easy, temporary way (say lasting up to a week each) to transfer a few big files that are too large to email.
>
>How about using bittorrent? There are multiple free trackers out there,
>which can handle the coordination between the nodes, if you don't want
>to run your own (e.g. [1]).
>
>Alternatively, i could host the files as long as the traffic stays
>below a couple 10GB/month.
>
>			Attila Kinali
>
>[1] http://openbittorrent.com/

I have used uTorrent to distribute large data sets before using both
the trackerless protocol and the OpenBitTorrent tracker.  All I had to
provide was either the torrent file or the magnet URL.  The caveat of
course is that you need to leave your bittorrent client running to
seed the file or files and you will probably want to figure out your
port forwarding so you can accept incoming connections.

You would probably still want a simple web page though with the magnet
links or torrent files.



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