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A comment on A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Aspera (2018).

Re:A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Asper... by ovidiul on Sunday December 29, 2019 @04:03PM (#21908455)
This looks interesting as well as it's developed at CERN and uses plain tcp protocol https://github.com/fast-data-transfer/fdt
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Re:A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Asper... by YarickR2 on Sunday December 29, 2019 @04:40PM (#21908703)
Second this. When we needed to deal with somewhat similar issues (quickly transfer multi-gigabyte archives over massively unreliable link) , we ended up with FDT ; it can be easily scripted , and transfers data between two hosts (without using a network of torrent peers) at that hosts' link speed. Used it to transfer builds between US and Russia, and Russia and China .
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Re:A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Asper... by branzo on Monday December 30, 2019 @12:02AM (#21910930)
+1

Used fdt to transfer a 6TB archive out of AWS very smoothly at full speed.

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Re:A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Asper... by beojan on Sunday December 29, 2019 @05:09PM (#21908909)
Or [rucio](https://rucio.cern.ch/).
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