On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 06:47:04 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Michael D. Berger > <m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com> wrote: [...] > >>From decades of experience in many environments, I can tell you that > reliable transfer of large files with protocols that require > uninterrupted transfer is awkward. The larger the file, the larger the > chance that any interruption at any point between the repository and the > client will break things, and with a lot of ISP's over-subscribing their > available bandwidth, such large transfers are, by their nature, > unreliable. > > Consider fragmenting the large file: Bittorrent transfers do this > automatically: the old "shar" and "split" tools also work well, and > tools like "rsync" and the lftp "mirror" utility are very good at > mirroring directories of such split up contents quite efficiently. What, then, is the largest file size that you would consider appropriate? Thanks, Mike.