Sending a large file over network continuously

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Published on 2010-06-07T09:40:03Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 10:02 UTC
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Hello,

We need to write software that would continuously (i.e. new data is sent as it becomes available) send very large files (several Tb) to several destinations simultaneously. Some destinations have a dedicated fiber connection to the source, while some do not.

Several questions arise:

We plan to use TCP sockets for this task. What failover procedure would you recommend in order to handle network outages and dropped connections?
What should happen upon upload completion: should the server close the socket? If so, then is it a good design decision to have another daemon provide file checksums on another port?
Could you recommend a method to handle corrupted files, aside from downloading them again? Perhaps I could break them into 10Mb chunks and calculate checksums for each chunk separately?

Thanks.

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