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Thank you very much for this suggestion
I have now set this up (pretty straightforward) and it has just completed it's first successful transfer
It took 69 hours to transfer 3.2GB over the 4g connection but it was a good transfer which is way more important
I can also see a number of other benefits in using this as a replacement solution
Cheers Mike
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You're welcome, Mike...glad it's working out for you ![Smile | :)](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/smiley_smile.gif)
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On the Torrent note, there is Bittorrent Sync[^], from the official Bittorrent Labs site.
EDIT: Didn't read the message above mine!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: EDIT: Didn't read the message above mine!
Glad you did, your link works, the above does not.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I have used rsync for this and it works well.
I have alsi used google drive, easy to setuop and has auto sync features betwwen windows, and mobile devices.
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Hard drives (SSD if you have the necessary funds) over the mail. And not the normal mail, but reliable courier firm
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Did you know there is a name for that?
It's called FedExNet[^] - and it is used for really fast transfer of really big data!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I didn't know up until you just told me
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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So you've learned something, and that's always a good day!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yes indeed. Thank you
I noticed that the most new things I learn everyday come from CP. Strange isn't it ?
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Yeah - but most them them are either rude or unreliable...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Argonia wrote: I noticed that the most new things I learn everyday come from CP. Strange isn't it ? What, you mean you actually go to other web-sites?
What a waste of bandwidth.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes of course I go to sites like dilbert everyday
Its my stimulus to go to work
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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You want MQtt -
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/webservices/ws-mqtt/mqtt-v3r1.html
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You asked stupid question, because FTP _is_ reliable, since it works over TCP. Read about FTP's "block transfer mode" - exactly what you need for broken connections.
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thank you for your opinion
unfortunately the majority of ftp implementations do not have the option of "block transfer mode" preferring to implement the Stream mode instead.
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But it's not a reason to name FTP as "unreliable", do you agree? EVERYTHING above TCP is reliable.
And best "really working" way is rsync or torrent (as adviced above).
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Sorry but I don't agree
In my book if a program sets out to do something (in this case transfer a file) and the results are not achieved it isn't reliable. It doesn't matter to me or the customer why the program is failing just that it is
I wasn't aware of the alternate modes in the ftp spec and after checking it appears that a lot of ftp programs available only implement stream mode and now I know I might have phrased the subject slightly differently but the idea of a subject is to convey what you are looking for in a few words
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If you use good tool in a wrong environment, why you blame the tool?? 3G _is_ a wrong environment, supposed to be very unstable! So blame 3G, not a FTP. And it's not a problem of FTP that some lazy ass didn't implement "block" mode transfer.
You're talking from side of "I wanna this result" (side of USER - man who doesn't know and don't want to know internals of protocol). But you _blame_ protocol like you KNOW internals! Don't you see you jumped to the side of your incompetency??
All what you can ask is: "We need to transfer files in unreliable 3G environment. Previously we use wrong tool FTP, can you please advice for tool which can do reliable transfer over unstable connection?".
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Don't knock a compliant ftp just because you'll have to install a compatible version on both client and server ends. After all, if you go with some other application, you'll already have to do that anyway. The difference is that the client won't have to learn some new tool just for their file transfers with you. Whether that difference is a plus or a minus depends on the client's attitude about this matter.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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I wasn't aware that I had knocked a compliant ftp.
Or did you mean the fact that I said that in the particular circumstances the ftp being used wasn't reliable?
I think I was probably clear enough that I had been happy using ftp until the client changed their internet connection to 4g at which point the ftp program being used failed to cope and I was looking for an alternative. I can now see from Thorniks response that this could be a different ftp implementation
modified 11-Jul-14 12:56pm.
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We do a lot of data transfers from our site to specific NASA sites and the data has to get there correctly.
We had been using FTP and shipping the MD5's but one of our clients had to change their access due to security issues so we changed to SFTP which has a guaranteed delivery feature.
We have not had any issues with failed or improperly transferred files since.
Jerry W. Manweiler, Ph.D.
Fundamental Technologies, LLC
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So, I put my bit-throttler into a 'live test' environment and it works! I've managed to reduce the whole of Bedford's bandwidth by 90%!
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I suggest you continue to monitor it, there may be unexpected side effects.
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