On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 11:12 +0100, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
> On Wed, January 12, 2011 18:11, Tony Pursell wrote:
>
> >> Is there any way to split
> >> up the file, write the pieces of the file to disk, read the disks on the
> >> laptop and then reconstruct the big file from its pieces. This would
> >> be very laborious and the network route is far better.
> >>
> >
> > There is a utility called 'split' that will split up text files and then
> > you can put then back together with 'cat' (just make sure you cat the
> > pieces together in the right order, of course).
> >
> > If the file is binary you will need to text encode it first. The
> > 'base64' utility will do that.
>
> There is no need to encode a binary file to split it. Just use split, for
> example:
>
> # That's 1 GB, 1000^3 bytes
> split --bytes=1GB --numeric-suffixes bigfile splitfile
> # makes splitfile00 splitfile01 splitfile02 splitfile03 ...
> # copy files to your laptop and put them back together
> cat splitfile00 splitfile01 splitfile02 splitfile03 > bigfile
> # Using wildcards with cat seems to work fine too:
> cat splitfile?? > bigfile
>
>
>
I stand corrected. Thank you Amedee. I think the reason why I
uuencoded stuff was to send the files using uucp. As I said, it was
about 15 years ago and moving data between Unix machines (me in UK and
the customer in Australia) was much more basic then. We split files
down to reduce the time needed to re-send if the transfer failed. We
were directly dialled up to the remote computer in those days.
Tony
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01-13-2011, 11:36 AM
Mister IT Guru
connecting to a server
On 12/01/2011 16:50, Bill Stanley wrote:
This is getting tedious...
Is there any way to get a BIG (4.5 GB) file from my server to the
laptop. I am having problems on the laptop with connecting to the
server where the BIG file is located. I have other computers on the
network that can access the file but not the lapto
If this is a windows based server, I too always have problems when
trying to use SMB for large file transfers. I do find that if I 'push'
the file ..( go to the source, and then connect with where I want the
file, and send it) It gets me out of problems. I also use SFTP by using
a client on the server called Tunnlier - It does SSH from windows
clients - v. nice for local based file transfers.
The other computers on the network accessing this server so the
problem is in the laptop. I ran apt-get install smbfs to try to
connect the other was and use the laptop as a server and thus having
the server SEND the file. Still no luck. The laptop has a new
install of 10.10 and smbfs is the only change I have made from a fresh
install.
As noted earlier, SMB is not the greatest protocol (my opinion) for
large data transfers, I somehow, still always have problems, or issues,
so I have adopted, the 'push' approach. Hope that helps Bill
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01-14-2011, 06:18 AM
Patton Echols
connecting to a server
On 01/12/2011 10:47 AM, Bill Stanley wrote:
On 01/12/2011 01:19 PM, Boggess Rod wrote:
I tend to use either rsync or scp, if you can ssh from one computer to
the other then both rsync and scp 'just work'.
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There's a Linux version of Filezilla available. I'd give that a try. You
never did say what OS the server is running. It does make details easier
to provide when explaining how to get this to work. After all, there's a
world of difference between executing appwiz.cpl and the equivalent
apt-get function.
The server is running Ubuntu 10.10 - 64 bit - Desktop version. I am
running as a samba server. I assume that some other software must be
installed to act as a FTP server or as a ssh server. If so, what must
be done on the server side?
Bill Stanley
Were you ever able to transfer your file? To answer this question, I
would suggest that ssh over installing an ftp server. To me the
configuration is easier. It is also useful to administer your server
remotely so you'll get more use out of it. You can get instructions in
the ubuntu server guide. Here is the ssh page:
connecting to a server
