Re: Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:08:33 -0500
"H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am in a situation where a friend of mine wants to send tons of
> photos to me. Internet connection being what it is regarding
> stability, I am aiming to a method where the photos' transfer can be
> resumed if the connection breaks and is recreated.
>
> Keeping security in mind, I am thinking of asking him to send them
> over to my machine, running Debian Testing, over SSH once I create an
> account for him (we do not want to go for mailing a DVD if we can
> help it).
>
> Now I wanted to know what is the best way to go about this. He is not
> a computer savvy and does not use Linux. Otherwise I would have just
> asked him to send it over rsync via ssh.
>
> For now what I have in mind is this:
> 1. Ask him to make archive volumes of the data, say 10 MB each.
> 2. Ask him to install the GUI scp client on his windows box.
> 3. Create account for him on my Debian router machine.
> 4. Ask him to start scp transfer of those volumes. They may number 300
> in all (around 3GB of data).
> 5. If the connection breaks, he can know right away which was the last
> volume being transfered and can resume from there.
>
> His upload speed is around 460 kbps. For 3GB of data, we are talking
> around 14 hours needed for the transfer.
>
> Any other suggestions or useful advice?
Unless there is any pressing need for you to use SSH, I would recommend
you temporary set up FTP for him instead. It is much faster for file
transfer than SFTP/SCP. FTP can also resume broken transfers.
Also I see no need for him to create an archive of data on 10 MB each.
If you prefer the archive method, I would suggest you make him zip the
files up in say 3 big files, 1 Gb each, and let him transfer those
using FTP.
Quick, easy and resumable.
> I also thought of asking him to install cygwin to get SSH and rsync,
> but I do not want to complicate this further for him. However, if
> there is a package for Windows which install the minimal packages
> needed for ssh and rsync and is easy to install, that could be an
> option.
>
> Thanks,
> ->HS
>
>
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