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JASN_DE ,

2p2? P2P?

Nouveau_Burnswick ,

To peer, or not to peer. That is the question.

leobakameo OP ,

Thanks, I corrected it

Nibodhika ,

Syncthing? Never used it on Windows but they do have a client so it should work. That's the simplest I can think of.

leobakameo OP ,

OK I'll try

BearOfaTime ,

Also, you want SyncTrayzor for Windows - it installs Syncthing and gives you a tray tool to manage it.

leobakameo OP ,

Cool, very useful program

BearOfaTime ,

Works fine on windows, I keep many phones and desktops /laptops syncing with about 100gb of data.

hardaysknight ,

Open the file in a text editor and email the results

halm ,
@halm@leminal.space avatar

It'll still be 30Gb though...

Valmond ,

10minute mails are free, just cut it up.

n3m37h ,

KDE Connect should do the trick

leobakameo OP ,

It looks optimal, thanks

leobakameo OP ,

I looked, it’s only suitable if the PС is on the same network. In my case these are different cities

crusa187 ,

It’s too big for email, and likely too big for Dropbox or Gdrive unless you have a paid account with them.

That means you’re going to have to get slightly technical. Find a freeware SFTP program that can spawn a server on the host, and connect to it from the client to download the file.

Good luck!

leobakameo OP ,

I'll get tired of explaining how to connect to FTP and what it is

kn33 ,

What about a torrent? You'll have to encrypt with 7zip or something to keep it secure, but that and qbitorrent will do the trick.

leobakameo OP ,

through the public BitTorrent tracker, I'll try it too, thanks

leobakameo OP ,

while I was looking for ways I came across a list of public announcers https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist

Pretzilla ,

Qbittorrent or Rutorrent has some kind of extension to allow single private file sharing

Or can a private magnet link accomplish this?

kn33 ,

Idk but I wouldn't risk it when it's easy to encrypt stuff. Good security is done in layers.

rdyoung ,

Sync by resilio. I use it between my computers and nas and between my computer and my vps and my nas and my vps, I also use it between my work and personal phone.

BearOfaTime ,

Resilio is really good, though I generally prefer Syncthing.

Resilio is hard on memory with larger folders.

rdyoung ,

I've never had an issue but then again I don't use it for much more than movies and TV. If sync thing supports qnap I might check it out but I've been using sync since it was launched (if not soon after).

BearOfaTime ,

ST started as a Linux app, does QNap support things like docker yet? (Been a while since I looked at them).

RS is a great tool - I wouldn't switch if it works for you.

It kills performance on my desktop because it keeps the index in ram for my media folder (10k files?). It's even worse on a phone. But I still say it's a great app, just with a slightly different use-case than ST. It's especially nice for it's On-demand sync.

I'm currently building a new file server, and RS will be included there, even with the performance issues for our phones. On-demand sync is hard to beat.

halm ,
@halm@leminal.space avatar

Syncthing or rsync?

B0rax ,

Syncthing is not a good solution for a one time transfer. It is likely slower as the other solutions here.

EpicVision ,

If the machines are on the same network, try LocalSend

tabular ,
@tabular@lemmy.world avatar

If the machines are in the same building a USB stick is the simplest option :D

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

Not always if you have a gigabit connection

tabular ,
@tabular@lemmy.world avatar

That's better, but is it simpler?

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

Yes

brickfrog ,

Syncthing, Resilio Sync, or one of those browser based p2p file sends e.g. https://file.pizza or similar.

If both p2p ends know how to use torrents then creating a simple torrent to share to the other peer would work fine. But that requires slightly more IT competence especially if someone needs to open a port forward (ideally you would make sure you have your own port forwarded so the other party doesn't have to worry about this).

If you're doing this more than once it might be worth setting up a simple server e.g. HFS is a nice open source/free HTTP file server, been a while since I used it but it still seems to be active https://www.rejetto.com/hfs/

beeng ,

File Pizza looks fun!

leobakameo OP ,

https://file.pizza thanks this is really the easiest way, I still found https://justbeamit.com

leobakameo OP ,

HFS - 20 security vendors and no sandboxes flagged this file as malicious
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e678899d7ea9702184167b56655f91a69f8a0bdc9df65612762252c053c2cd7c/detection

brickfrog ,

Interesting, though I suspect that is a false positive, it's happened before with that software

https://rejetto.com/forum/index.php?topic=9037.0

Most likely because it is a self-contained web server executable? That sort of software would seem suspicious and similar to other sorts of virus/malware.

Granted I have not used it in a while but I'd be surprised if it were true, their forums and github would be full of reports of malware.

https://github.com/rejetto/hfs

That aside you have plenty of other options to use if you prefer to use something else.

RHOPKINS13 ,

file.pizza if this is a one off or rare occurrence. If you're doing this regularly, there are better options, provided the person at the "source" computer is competent. A significant question is whether or not these computers are on the same network. I would recommend running a HTTP server if you don't care about privacy, HTTPS if you do. There's no need to buy an SSL certificate, self-signed is more than adequate for this purpose.

It's more complicated to set up, but the advantage is that when you're done you can send the receiving party a link they can open in any web browser, no hassle.

Link ,

Or use LetsEncrypt it’s free to get an SSL certificate.

Decronym Bot , (edited )

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
HTTPS HTTP over SSL
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 30 acronyms.

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themusicman ,

USB flash drive

avidamoeba ,
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca avatar

Syncthing.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

As a long-time user, not at all simple.

vala ,

Yeah it's like the least intuitive software ever honestly.

Might as well just use rsync at that point haha.

MangoPenguin ,
@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

The easiest I've ever used is https://localsend.org/

Very simple, just open it on both computers, select the file and click the other computer.

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