On Thursday 17 July 2003 05:56 pm, David Demner wrote:
> > --__--__--
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> > I am wondering if anyone can help me with this scenario.
> >
> > So, any ideas on how to do this?
>
> Here's one:
>
> 1. Buy a hard drive & hook it up
> 2. Copy the data to the hard drive
> 3. Snail mail the hard drive to the recipient

The source is the remote machine, that wont work. I am trying to mirror a 
remote machine basically. The remote machine is also geographically remote 
from me. 


> Does it really have to be copied over the net?  20GB would take:
>
>  20,000,000,000.00    bytes
>  200,000.00   bytes/s (pretty fast over the internet, but you may get more)
>  100,000.00   seconds
>  1,666.67     minutes
>  27.78        hours
>
> It would take a really long time to copy this data, assuming your
> throughput doesn't change, especially at only 1 hour per day.

I have the time. This is not something that needs to be done fast, so I won't 
worry about it. So it'll probably take me a month before it's finish. No big 
deal. I'm just trying to figure out a smart way to do it.

Thanks though.

RDB
-- 
Reuben D. Budiardja


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