[Gllug] Transferring large files at specified times

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:39:51AM +0100, Jon Dye wrote:
> A friend and I are trying to work out the best way to transfer some
> large ISOs (of DVDs) from his machine to mine over the 'net.  His ISP
> has a bandwidth cap except between 1am and 6am where bandwidth is
> unrestricted so we'd like to do the transfers then.
> 
> We were wondering what people thought the best method of transfer would
> be and which program we should use considering we want to be able to
> (automatically?) stop and start transfer at specified times.
> 
> Our current plan is to have the files hosted on a webserver at his end
> and for me to start and kill wget via a cron task every day, does anyone
> have any better suggestions?

Use split to chop them into 50MB chunks and reassemble at your end.
Write a shell script that loops getting the chunks, but stops some
suitable time before 6am.

Alternatively: burn them and post them.

-- 
Alain Williams
Parliament Hill Computers Ltd.
Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer.
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