[WEB4LIB] Huge file delivery

[Mike Beccaria]

Andrew,
 
I have used FTP to transfer files of this size pretty often. The NY State GIS web page often has files that exceed this size and they use FTP for their transfers as well. See here for an example: http://www.nysgis.state.ny.us/gateway/mg/livingston_download.htm
 
Best of luck!
 
Mike

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: A. Bullen [mailto:abullen at ameritech.net] 
	Sent: Thu 4/28/2005 4:39 PM 
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	Subject: [WEB4LIB] Huge file delivery
	
	

	All--
	
	Forgive  a naive question, but I have never had to deal with the
	following situation and I don't know how to it off. We will be in
	receipt of a very large GPS data set consisting of files that total 1
	terabyte all together; I think the individual data sets are 20-30 GB a
	piece.
	
	Does anyone have a suggestion how I can successfully distribute files
	this large on an on-demand basis? I can put them on servers that share a
	T-3, but I am not sure FTP can handle this size and scope of file
	transmission.
	
	Like I said, probably a naive question, but any insight would be helpful.
	
	Andrew Bullen
	Illinois State Library