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Apologies for all the questions, I'm just curious about this. >Checksums will identify something went wrong, and then you need to redownload the file to a quar
by closeparen 6y ago
Apologies for all the questions, I'm just curious about this.
>Checksums will identify something went wrong, and then you need to redownload the file to a quarantine network and scan it. Takes time.
Surely a sensible file transfer algorithm would compute checksums on small and easy-to-retransmit chunks? Does rsync not do this? Isn't it already happening in TCP?
>Not to mention most major studios will contractually prevent you from exposing anything to the web.
I understand that workstations with media on them are not going to have internet access, but do they really prohibit site to site VPNs?
>Amazon just released a device (forget the name) for exactly the same use case. We developed it in house.
Snowball and Snowmobile? IIRC these are primarily meant for one-time migration from on-prem storage to S3. Do people really use them on an ongoing basis?