[WEB4LIB] RE: Huge file delivery

[Roy Tennant]

Although I haven't found a definitive answer on this (yet), I highly 
doubt the protocol itself has any such limitation. So we're really 
talking about possible limitations of servers and clients. To use one 
example, this client <http://www.tucows.com/preview/399187.html> claims 
to support file sizes of up to 64GB. Also, as I suggested to Andrew 
privately, it shouldn't be too hard to test.
Roy

On Apr 28, 2005, at 3:46 PM, Mike Beccaria wrote:

> Whoops. Someone pointed out my silly mistake...I have never sent 
> 20-30GB file sets over FTP. I read it fast and assumed they were MB's. 
> I think there are problems (sometimes) sending files over 2GB with 
> FTP. Is it possible to use an archiving utility (winrar comes to mind) 
> that can break the file down into smaller chunks and then use FTP?
>
> Mike
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> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: Mike Beccaria
> 	Sent: Thu 4/28/2005 5:06 PM
> 	To: Multiple recipients of list
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> 	Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Huge file delivery
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> 	Andrew,
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> 	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
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> 	Best of luck!
> 	
> 	Mike
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> 	        -----Original Message-----
> 	        From: A. Bullen [mailto:abullen at ameritech.net]
> 	        Sent: Thu 4/28/2005 4:39 PM
> 	        To: Multiple recipients of list
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> 	        Subject: [WEB4LIB] Huge file delivery
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> 	        All--
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> 	        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.
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> 	        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.
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> 	        Like I said, probably a naive question, but any insight would 
> be helpful.
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> 	        Andrew Bullen
> 	        Illinois State Library
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