----- Original Message ----- | On Oct 29 07:22:22, James A. Peltier wrote: | > ----- Original Message ----- | > | On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:05:28 -0700 (PDT) | > | "James A. Peltier" <[email protected]> wrote: | > | | > | > No I cannot just put and get. Moving hundreds of gigabytes of | > | > medical imaging data around with FTP/SSH would be out of the | > | > question. | > | | > | Why? | > | | > | I imagine you know but FTP/SSH != sftp | > | > Yes I do. I was lumping FTP,SCP, SFTP into that group of choices. | > | > | Do you think ssh is too slow and unreliable? | > | > I don't think it's too slow, I know it for my purposes | > | > | Don't you have a duty to secure that medical data for many | > | reasons, | > | obviously not jeopardising lives being paramount via reliability | > | first | > | and speed, does nfs offer that. | > | > Yes, but the data is mostly scrubbed of personal info. | > | > | Seems all you need is interfaces for sftp? | > | > At face value it would seem that way, but you need to remember that | > each and every SFTP/SCP is a duplicate of the data. | > | > | >> and have their home directories be mounted on each of those | > | >> platforms. | > | | > | >>I am using Solaris, OS X, GNU/Linux and Windows mostly | > | | > | | > | If your trusting a windows gui!!! with this data then why are | > | others using the commandline put and get. Are your windows users | > | using | > | dir and copy. | > | > No, the NFS share is re-exported out via Samba as a native CIFS | > mount to Windows machines. It's a simple copy paste for them | | "re-exported" puzzles me; you export the data via NFS to those clients | who can speak NFS, and you export the same data via CIFS to those who | speak CIFS. Right?
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