topic Re: The Max size that can be FTP in Operating System - HP-UX

The Max size that can be FTP

nathaniel — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 16:37:48 GMT

I am working on a project here at the Army National Guard Building. I need to push down a zipped file that is 542MB. How large or the max size that can go through FTP. I need to know ASAP. Thank you for your help!

Re: The Max size that can be FTP

Joseph C. Denman — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 16:40:14 GMT

Probably depend on the filesystem limit. 500MB is fairly small. You should have no trouble.

...jcd...

Re: The Max size that can be FTP

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 16:48:15 GMT

Hi:

Often, firewalls are set to limit the size. Otherwise, the file size limitation should be controlled by the receiving server's disk quotas, and/or filesytems' limitations (e.g. unless 'largefiles' is enabled, then <2GB for HP).

...JRF...

Re: The Max size that can be FTP

dennis bergman — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 16:49:05 GMT

Are you getting any errors?

Re: The Max size that can be FTP

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 16:51:12 GMT

Hi
Just for the fun of it I have just ftpd a 1.1 Gbyte file - time taken 29.8 seconds on a 100 Meg network.

So No Problems with your file, although I believe that there is a 2 Gig limit but dont quote me.

Paula

Re: The Max size that can be FTP

rick jones — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 18:47:17 GMT

there should be no "imposed by FTP" limit on the size of the file you can transfer.

there might be filesystem limits or perhaps ulimit limits. there might be bugs in the ftp itself, but FTP the protocol should have no limits

Re: The Max size that can be FTP

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 07:44:53 GMT

it really depends on your filesystem.
2G perhaps for most default filesystem max file sizes although you can change that..

Later,
Bill

Re: The Max size that can be FTP

Magdi KAMAL — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 07:49:28 GMT

Hi,

For ftp, there is no limit on size for transfer.
Limitation could be set by either the firewalls or filesystems.

Magdi