On 2016-08-24 Robert Keizer wrote:
Tar it up and compress it. Scp it.
Hah, a bit simpler than my way.
But do keep in mind scp won't resume and if the sender is on a 2Mb up MTS DSL connection or similar it could take a looooong time to upload and no guarantee either side's connection or computers wouldn't go wonky during that time.
I'm not sure I did the math right, but I calculate at 2Mb/s 400GB would take 18 *days*??!?
scp would be good if you chunked the pieces real small, but bad for a single 400GB file, unless both sides have a great, fast, reliable pipe.
You've been spoiled by fast pipes, Rob!!
P.S. Maybe sneakernet would be a better option if your pipe is small... Buy 4 128GB SD cards or 1 500GB SSD drive, use split and gpg -c to chunk and encrypt; throw in a Xpresspost or UPS Express envelope and ship 1-2 day for around $15-$30. Figure 1 day to write the data (especially on slow SD cards, SSD would be waaay faster), 1-2 days en route. All done in 3 days. But you'll spend ~$250 on the cards/ssd, but you can keep it for use another day.