copying a 12GB file

2006-03-01 Thread .
Hi, how can I copy a 12GB file at reasonable speed over a 1000Mbit ethernet connection from one computer (mailserver) to another (SAMBA file server or my workstation) without going to lengths like installing an FTP server or the like on the mailserver? File size limit is 2GB with smbmount;

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-01 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, how can I copy a 12GB file at reasonable speed over a 1000Mbit ethernet connection from one computer (mailserver) to another (SAMBA file server or my workstation) without going to lengths like installing an FTP server or the like on the mailserver? maybe stupid suggestion, but... it is not

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-01 Thread Lubos Vrbka
FTP would probably be the fastest, but scp (file transfer over SSH) is probably already on both machines if they're both Linux. PuTTY is an excellent SSH/SCP client for Windows (and Unix) if you need cross platform support. You probably don't want to use SSH Compression as I've seen it actual

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-01 Thread anoop aryal
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 09:43 am, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > > FTP would probably be the fastest, but scp (file transfer over SSH) is > > probably already on both machines if they're both Linux. PuTTY is an > > excellent SSH/SCP client for Windows (and Unix) if you need cross > > platform support. >

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-01 Thread Peter McAlpine
Yes, blowfish would be a good choice if doing this. -Peter On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:43:45PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > >FTP would probably be the fastest, but scp (file transfer over SSH) is > >probably already on both machines if they're both Linux. PuTTY is an > >excellent SSH/SCP client

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-01 Thread Michael Schurter
. wrote: how can I copy a 12GB file at reasonable speed over a 1000Mbit ethernet connection from one computer (mailserver) to another (SAMBA file server or my workstation) without going to lengths like installing an FTP server or the like on the mailserver? FTP would probably be the fastest,

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-01 Thread .
. wrote: how can I copy a 12GB file at reasonable speed over a 1000Mbit ethernet Thanks for your input! :) I've installed wu-ftpd on the workstation rather than on the mailserver (I should have thought earlier of that!), and it was easy and worked flawless except that the ftp client doesn't

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-01 Thread Mike McCarty
. wrote: Hi, how can I copy a 12GB file at reasonable speed over a 1000Mbit ethernet connection from one computer (mailserver) to another (SAMBA file server or my workstation) without going to lengths like installing an FTP server or the like on the mailserver? File size limit is 2GB with

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-01 Thread Patrick Ouellette
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 05:57:57PM +0100, . wrote: > Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:57:57 +0100 > From: "." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: copying a 12GB file > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > . wrote: > > >how can I copy a 12GB file at reasonable

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-01 Thread Tom
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:20:25 +0100, . wrote: > > Hi, > > how can I copy a 12GB file at reasonable speed over a 1000Mbit ethernet > connection from one computer (mailserver) to another (SAMBA file server > or my workstation) without going to lengths like installing an FTP > server or the like

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-01 Thread Neil Dugan
. wrote: . wrote: how can I copy a 12GB file at reasonable speed over a 1000Mbit ethernet Thanks for your input! :) I've installed wu-ftpd on the workstation rather than on the mailserver (I should have thought earlier of that!), and it was easy and worked flawless except that the ftp cli

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-01 Thread Jan Schledermann
. wrote: > > Hi, > > how can I copy a 12GB file at reasonable speed over a 1000Mbit ethernet > connection from one computer (mailserver) to another (SAMBA file server > or my workstation) without going to lengths like installing an FTP > server or the like on the mailserver? > > File size limit

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-02 Thread Josh Battles
On Wed, March 1, 2006 11:04 am, Mike McCarty wrote: > . wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> how can I copy a 12GB file at reasonable speed over a 1000Mbit ethernet connection from one computer (mailserver) to another (SAMBA file server or my workstation) without going to lengths like installing an FTP server o

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-03 Thread Sinan Nalkaya
if the server is debian, the nfs daemon provided by nfs-kernel-server packet should do fine, i wrote and read 40 gb daha to nfs server without any problem, didnt measure the time/speed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-10 Thread .
Patrick Ouellette wrote: Have you thought about netcat? No, never heard of that before :) GH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-10 Thread .
Neil Dugan wrote: If you really want to know how fast the transfer was, you could copy again but pipe the file to /dev/null instead of putting it on a disk. Yeah, but as long as the speed is reasonably with the expectable limits, it's ok. I only wanted to get the file copied because I needed i

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-10 Thread .
Josh Battles wrote: I regularly transfer ~9GB files across my [100mbit] network from a Sarge server to any number of Linux workstations as well as a Windows MCE set top box. Everything is stored on Samba shares using CIFS. I've never gotten any errors and my transfer times are usually very rea

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-10 Thread .
Sinan Nalkaya wrote: if the server is debian, the nfs daemon provided by nfs-kernel-server packet should do fine, i wrote and read 40 gb daha to nfs server without any problem, didnt measure the time/speed. The server I wanted to to copy the file from is running Debian Woody, kernel 2.4.20. The

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-10 Thread .
Mike McCarty wrote: Is splitting the file up into pieces, and doing MD5 and SHA1 sums on the pieces out of the question? Well, I thought of that, but I would have had to use pieces smaller than 2 GB. The way to split it would have been using something like mimeconstruct and send it by mail, li

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-03-01 17:18:43, schrieb .: > > Hi, > > how can I copy a 12GB file at reasonable speed over a 1000Mbit ethernet > connection from one computer (mailserver) to another (SAMBA file server > or my workstation) without going to lengths like installing an FTP > server or the like on the mail

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-03-10 13:36:35, schrieb .: > Sinan Nalkaya wrote: > >if the server is debian, the nfs daemon provided by nfs-kernel-server > >packet should do fine, i wrote and read 40 gb daha to nfs server without > >any problem, didnt measure the time/speed. > > The server I wanted to to copy the file f

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-20 Thread listrcv
Michelle Konzack wrote: You should correct your NFS-Setup! Yeah, I tried, but async mode fails. GH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-27 Thread Michael Gregg
I've had this same problems here with a machine that's on a segmented network here. Where I would get these I/O Errors when I use nfs in async mode. After a lot of investigation it turned out to be a interaction problem between a very large and old cisco switch and a router(aslo cisco). It turn

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-28 Thread listrcv
Michael Gregg wrote: After a lot of investigation it turned out to be a interaction problem between a very large and old cisco switch and a router(aslo cisco). Thanks for the info! Both machines are connected to a new 24 Port 10/100/1000 Switch, so that shouldn't give problems --- actually a

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-28 Thread Michael Gregg
I very well may be a problem with NFS itself, and I'd like to know what it is if you ever figure out the problem. Have you tried directly connecting together the two machines that are having problems? Have you done tcpdumps on the links that the machines exist on? Are you getting any collision

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-29 Thread listrcv
Michael Gregg wrote: I very well may be a problem with NFS itself, and I'd like to know what it is if you ever figure out the problem. I'm sorry, but I'm probably not very helpful with that. I just installed an ftp server to copy the file which went flawless at work. My setup at home involv

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-29 Thread Chris Howie
I missed the first message, so I'm quoting from a quote: > Am 2006-03-01 17:18:43, schrieb .: > >>Hi, >> >>how can I copy a 12GB file at reasonable speed over a 1000Mbit ethernet >>connection from one computer (mailserver) to another (SAMBA file server >>or my workstation) without going to leng

RE: copying a 12GB file

2006-04-27 Thread Ken Walker
TED] Behalf Of Chris Howie > Sent: 29 March 2006 9:55pm > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: copying a 12GB file > > > I missed the first message, so I'm quoting from a quote: > > > Am 2006-03-01 17:18:43, schrieb .: > > > >>Hi, &

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-05-02 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-04-27 14:15:10, schrieb Ken Walker: > > smbmount //other_machines_IP_or_name/share_name /mnt/c -o > lfs,username=blah,password=blah > > the lfs in the middle gives samba Large File Support. I couldn't copy > anything bigger than 2Gig without it ...or use scp > Ken Greetings Michell

netcat on windows [WAS: copying a 12GB file]

2006-03-11 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:02:19AM -0600, anoop aryal wrote: > On Wednesday 01 March 2006 09:43 am, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > > > FTP would probably be the fastest, but scp (file transfer over SSH) is > > > probably already on both machines if they're both Linux. PuTTY is an > > > excellent SSH/SCP cli