moving a lot of data

[Seth Rothenberg <seth@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A project was brought to my attention today, to move
10 GB/day for 17 weeks from Hartford to Westchester,
which is a 4 to 6 hour drive.
(Data would probably be batched every 15 minutes).

The discussion began with
the capacity of the T1 that is available
(only on one side :-)...On the other side, we may need
to order more On-demand capacity....a direct circuit
was even proposed.....but I don't know if you can moev
10GB/day on a T1, even if its dedicated...

I asked the question, what if we use physical media?

As cheap as the Internet is, it may
still be cheaper to put a disk on a truck.

What occurred to me was that I
could build a Pebble linux box....
What my colleague calls a pizza box server.

The only thing writable on the box
would be the data disk...root disk on CompactFlash.
The only thing the box would do is (s)ftp.
(maybe also, ssh :-)


I need to discuss with our (internal) clients
to determine if the added turnaround time
is OK, but it would probably be cheaper than
installing a T1 for 6 months use.

I was wondering if anyone has had experience with
this type of thing?

Thanks
Seth
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