[Discuss] large log file transfer

[Eric Chadbourne]

Smells fishy!

Eric C
- The paranoid one.


> On Jun 23, 2015, at 11:19 AM, Eric Chadbourne <eric.chadbourne at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> Maybe he wants the file to appear smaller for other reasons?  It is “restricted” to quote the op.
> 
> Eric Chadbourne
> Nonprofit-CRM.org
> 
>> On Jun 23, 2015, at 11:17 AM, Mike Small <smallm at panix.com> wrote:
>> 
>> John Malloy <jomalloy at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> I have a log file (325MB)  that I need to transfer from a restricted
>>> network, that I cannot plug a USB into.
>>> 
>>> Is there an easy way to "split up" the log file into smaller chunks and Zip
>>> it to get it over the net?
>> 
>> So Jerry and Jack have pointed you to split, but why do you want to
>> split it into chunks?
>> 
>> I must admit I've not dealt with any networks lately that I couldn't
>> reliably download a 300 MB file on, but is it not still possible to
>> resume interrupted transfers?  Are you using vanilla ftp, http or scp?
>> 
>> If you're using scp, I'd be inclined not to zip it but to use ssh's
>> compression so when it finally does arrive I wouldn't have to unzip and
>> then again find something else to do while that happens. But I guess scp
>> doesn't support resume (hmmm, maybe ssh dd and adjust the offset based
>> on the file size after the failure? -- perhaps that's more trouble than
>> splitting).
>> 
>> By "restricted network" do you mean that rsync is not an option?
>> 
>> -- 
>> Mike Small
>> smallm at panix.com
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