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Gets my vote!
Normally I think of Torrents in the "Pirate Bay" sense - I'd never considered using them for a business system.
But you're right - this is exactly one of the problems they were created to solve.
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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Absolutely. They take seconds to set up, are actually less hassle than dropbox (where you've only got "public" and "not public"), and fly faster than either European or African swallows. I use 'em for just about everything.
I used to use MegaUpload, until the US government decided that it had the right to confiscate my subscription to the service and access all my confidential customer files. You have no idea how close I came to taking the US government to court (in NL) over that.
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I would have thought torrents would be a good way of getting your internet connections revoked by your ISP?
I haven't used torrents at all since anti-piracy three-strikes law came into effect here in NZ.
Sure there might be legit reasons for P2P file sharing, but it must raise a red flag on the ISP servers.
Have I been needlessly cautious?
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Well I don't know, I'm not that familiar with how the system works in NZ. I'd hope they'd check the hash against a database of "files that are not supposed to be shared" (which would take quite some effort to maintain), but on the other hand I'd also expect a stupid automated system to be stupid.
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I suppose for his case, he should his own (private) tracker and only give the .torrent file/magnet link to the customer or the other way around.
The listing should not be public, the connection should be encrypted (MSE), and usually the government wouldn't know unless they enable deep-packet inspection on for each packet.
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I've had good luck with BitTorrent Sync[^]...it's peer to peer, works on all platforms and it's free.
Updated: Fixed link
modified 12-Jul-14 11:00am.
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You beat me to it!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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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
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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
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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.
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Yes of course I go to sites like dilbert everyday
Its my stimulus to go to work
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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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