ogiers Posted May 20, 2007 Report Share Posted May 20, 2007 Greetings, Friends!I am looking for a bit of 'step by step' assistance to do something with my favorite technology to help out someone senior at the office. We need to get a 6+ GB file (a VMWare environment) from our overseas R&D office to the NY office quickly and reliably. Files this large don't work well with ftp, and I have of course seen how great torrenting works, using this great client and via public tracker sites.The issue is that I don't want to upload the file anywhere, or to utilize a public tracker, but rather to somehow use the torrent software to create a torrent pointing to the large file, and then send it from one machine to another.I am sure that those of you who upload regularly find this to be an obvious process, but I'm a bit of a newbie on doing much more with torrents than downloading and sharing/seeding. I'd really appreciate if if one of you experts could give me a few quick pointers so that I can get it done fast and reliably.Thanks in advance for all of your help!Ogiers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnurlos Posted May 20, 2007 Report Share Posted May 20, 2007 http://www.utorrent.com/torrent.phpRead the guide and search for "embedded tracker" there, that would do it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoovious Posted May 20, 2007 Report Share Posted May 20, 2007 btw, judging from what you want to do it for, doing it in a torrent is useless...FTP would actually be a better method in this case.You don't get any speed benefits, or other benefits, using µTorrent over FTP, if you're only sending from 1 place, to 1 place.The speed doesn't come in until you have other peers combining their efforts on your behalf.There is no reason at all why a file that large isn't handled well via FTP... none whatsoever... so if the size is giving you problems, then you really should look at using a different ftp client or server instead of what you're using now.-- Smoovious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ogiers Posted May 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 Hey Smoovious, schnurlos, thank you for your responses.The goal is not increased speed over FTP, but a more reliable way to get all of the pieces from one place to another. When FTP times out, the whole transfer has to be restarted. This happens a lot with a large file.By splitting the file up into many WinRAR pieces, creating a private or embedded torrent, and utilizing bittorrent technology, I hope to overcome this issue. If a piece hashfails, then it will simply reacquire and continue.Hopefully the embedded tracker solution will do the trick.Thanks again,Ogiers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoovious Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 like I said... get a new FTP client... any free client out there worth being called an FTP client (not including that piece of crap that comes with Windows) can resume interrupted transfers no problem.I'd suggest using FlashFXP or LeapFTP or ANYTHING besides the windows built-in FTP client.-- Smoovious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnurlos Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 Filezilla does the same (used here). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 I used to use FileZilla... but then switched to WinSCP 4.0 because I prefer self-contained executables Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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