How quickly does the file grow? If it isn't super quick then DFS set to use very low bandwidth may be sufficient.
From: Graeme Carstairs [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, 15 March 2010 11:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: File transfer program suggestions request. We thought of RDP but dont think thats viable via sattelite link. Initial discussions were around to servers on the same network so we were thinking of DFS. We think a package that can just transfer file changes without copying the whole file, each time it changes, without locking either the source or destination file then we should be able to achive the goal. Netcat has been suggested but can be problematic due to AV vendors detecting it. Thanks for your input. Graeme On 15 March 2010 12:52, N Parr <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Since it's satellite RDP could be problematic at best unless they are using some high end equipment. I think someone here once explained that if the equipment doesn't do data bursting then RDP will just saturate and kill the line? Other thoughts. If the ascii file is to big to compress and copy, ftp, etc over the line then can you archive and start the file over if it reaches a certain size. You said it's for real time viewing. How much history do they need? Could you screen shot the computer it's on and then copy, ftp the image to a web page that refreshes every xx seconds? ________________________________ From: Graeme Carstairs [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 3:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: File transfer program suggestions request. HI all, We have a customer who is going to be operating a drilling ship and has the following file transfer requirements and I was hoping someone on the list could give me some suggestions. Scenario Ship is running a data acquisition program to log data from the well its drilling. The data is logged to an asii text file. On board the ship a software package continuously reads the data to display information about the well in real time. The owner of the field is on shore and needs to see the same information as the ship does, and will be using the same viewing package. There will be a sattelite link to the internet on the vessel. So what we require is a file transfer program that can monitor the log file on the vessel, without locking it, and transfer deltas to a similar file on the beach that again is not locked. On the vessel will be windows, on the shore we are assuming windows at the moment but it could be linux. Can any one suggest anything. Thanks Graeme -- Good news everyone, you have just received and e-mail from me! -- Good news everyone, you have just received and e-mail from me! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
