--- title: CowGL file revive plans description: I had came up with two plans to download the files from the server. --- # CowGL file revive plans I had came up with two plans to download the files from the server: ## ~~Plan A: Download from another VPS~~ ~~Use another VPS or machine that has high speed internet to download the files, then just download the downloaded version on the machine.~~ ## Plan B: Split into parts Since we knew we can download about 1G of files without crashing, then why not just make many many .tar.gz files, each file about 1G? Do it about 10 times and all files can be downloaded. # Updates ## First Update We had tried Plan A, but the server still crashed while downloading. I decided to try Plan B this week. Some materials about how to split .tar.gz files: 1. https://www.linux.com/training-tutorials/split-and-join-targz-file-linux/ 2. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/61774/create-a-tar-archive-split-into-blocks-of-a-maximum-size ## Second Update I had tried the Plan B, and it works! But for my internet connection, downloading 1G of file need ten minutes, which means it need 1h40m to download all the files. I will do that this weekend. ## Third Update I downloaded all parts of the data, now I'm trying to assemble them. ## Final Update All files has been extracted!