[c-nsp] Large File Transfers

[Ben Steele]

I'm going to recommend rsync mainly for it's resume of transfer  
ability over scp(given your files sound large), you can tunnel it via  
ssh using a flag like "--rsh=ssh" or similar for security, it would  
depend on your OS, on top of that to make it even smoother you could  
use pre-shared keys onyour ssh to nullify any manual authentication  
making it even easier to script such transfers, although using expect  
you could script something like this up in a few minutes.

I guess a big factor depends on your clients abilities, IPSEC with  
rsync inside would be nice but would require clients to be configured  
and able to terminate IPSEC tunnels which is ultimately going to be  
quite a bit more work than an rsync script.

Ben

On 06/03/2008, at 1:55 AM, Mike wrote:

> I'd also mention 50% of the transfers are public - to/from client  
> networks.
> Thanks so far.
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Jonty Bale <Jonty at aware-soft.com>  
> wrote:
>
>>
>>> Not 100% Cisco related, but supported by Cisco technology
>>> ultimately. We
>>> have the need to consistently share large files (250MB - 5GB)
>>> across many
>>> sites and geographies, and securely. FTP is commonly used,
>>> but do other
>>> companies utilize different technologies to support this need
>>> - yousendit,
>>> SCP shells, anything. Rather ambiguous I know, but just
>>> looking for ideas
>>> ultimately to further investigations.
>>
>> If you are running a windows network, I suggest you look at DFS:
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/storage/dfs/defa
>> ult.mspx
>>
>> Although you are still bound by the capacity, and security of your  
>> WAN
>> links.
>>
>> Jonty.
>>
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