Re: Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:08 PM, 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?
SFTP + FileZilla is an easy way to do this graphically. FileZilla is
a cross-platform FTP client that tracks succesful & failed transfers.
The failed transfers can be reprocessed with just a few clicks.
-Elijah
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