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November 4

Program/protocol to resume transfer after a dropout without starting again from the beginning

If I have a large file say in terabytes and I want to transfer it from one computer to another computer in the other side of the world using the internet. What program or protocol can I use to avoid restarting the transfer if I have a dropout which last for hours on end? 110.22.20.252 (talk) 00:12, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

BitTorrent Andy Dingley (talk) 00:35, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

TeamViewer is a remote-desktop protocol; it supports file transfers with resuming. HTTP supports resuming, but you need to install a HTTP server on the remote machine, and use wget or curl to fetch the file(s). In either case, I would suggest using 7-zip, or similar, to compress and split the file into 100MByte chunks. This means that if the resume fails, there is less to fetch again. LongHairedFop (talk) 12:19, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

rsync over ssh - details -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 16:08, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, if you are doing this between two home computers, then be aware that it's the upstream speed of the remote computer that's most likely to limit the speed. A 16Mbit/sec connection will take about 7¼ days to transfer 1TByte of data. You might be better splitting the file(s) and burning them onto blu-ray disks. A blu-ray disk can hold between 50GB and 128GB of data. LongHairedFop (talk) 16:38, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

team viewer sounds like the way to go, easy to setup and use with file transfer resuming over outages. 110.22.20.252 (talk) 01:38, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]