Suggestions welcome for file transfer problem

Or, since we don't know where the connection breaks down, can user upload
to a cloud, such as MS Sky Drive, then the Miami user download from there?

The docs on Groove claim it works for slow speed connections. Might be easier
if the files did not change in their entirity every night, as it syncs only
the changes.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/gr...680011033.aspx


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Can the user create his "files"on a workstation at the Miami office
using RWW and a remote session? Less bandwidth needed and reconnects
automagically if the connection is dropped.

"Charles Lavin" wrote in message
...

Hi --

I have a Windows XP Pro PC (SP3) in an office in Central America that
needs to send about 400 MB of files a day (night) to a SBS 2003 SP2
(or Server 2003 R2 SP2) server in Miami. The Miami office has a
simple T1 for data communications; I'm not sure exactly what is
connecting the Central American office, but I know we have stability
issues with it.

The user down there has been trying to push this data to a Server
2003 box in Miami acting as an FTP server, but the transfer almost
never succeeds.

I can open a PPTP tunnel from that PC to the Miami network. But what
would be the best way to get these files to Miami -- some way that
won't hog bandwidth during the day, that could ideally restart after
network connectivity problems, etc.? Can I leverage BITS? Using only
whatever programs and commands are available on a Windows XP box?

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks,
CL

We tried uploading them to an intermediary location and then downloading
them from there. But the upload process doesn't work much better, it
requires more manpower (now I need someone to upload the fileset, and
someone else to download the fileset), and it requires me to keep someone in
Miami well after their normal working hours (since the branch office is one
to two hours behind the Miami office, and the files originate from there
upon their closing). The files need to be in Miami so that they can be
worked on overnight (by the app in the Miami office) and the Miami staff can
have their necessary reports when they come in in the morning. I can't have
someone downloading the file in the morning and then running all the
analyses and reports, because the local staff would have nothing to work on
until close to lunchtime.


"Larry Struckmeyer[SBS-MVP]" wrote in message
m...
Or, since we don't know where the connection breaks down, can user upload
to a cloud, such as MS Sky Drive, then the Miami user download from there?

The docs on Groove claim it works for slow speed connections. Might be
easier if the files did not change in their entirity every night, as it
syncs only the changes.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/gr...680011033.aspx


-
Larry
Please post the resolution to your
issue so others may benefit
-
Get Your SBS Health Check at
www.sbsbpa.com


Can the user create his "files"on a workstation at the Miami office
using RWW and a remote session? Less bandwidth needed and reconnects
automagically if the connection is dropped.

"Charles Lavin" wrote in message
...

Hi --

I have a Windows XP Pro PC (SP3) in an office in Central America that
needs to send about 400 MB of files a day (night) to a SBS 2003 SP2
(or Server 2003 R2 SP2) server in Miami. The Miami office has a
simple T1 for data communications; I'm not sure exactly what is
connecting the Central American office, but I know we have stability
issues with it.

The user down there has been trying to push this data to a Server
2003 box in Miami acting as an FTP server, but the transfer almost
never succeeds.

I can open a PPTP tunnel from that PC to the Miami network. But what
would be the best way to get these files to Miami -- some way that
won't hog bandwidth during the day, that could ideally restart after
network connectivity problems, etc.? Can I leverage BITS? Using only
whatever programs and commands are available on a Windows XP box?

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks,
CL