[Gllug] Transferring large files at specified times

John Hearns john.hearns at streamline-computing.com
Wed Apr 6 10:34:50 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 10:39 +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.
Put it on a USB stick. Pop it in the post.

Seriously, as the quote goes "Never underestimate the bandwidth of
an estate wagon full of tapes."

Or, as Will says you could use rsync.

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