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What is the largest file transfer you have ever done?
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Entire drive/array backups will probably be by far the largest file transfer anyone ever does. The biggest I've done was a measly 20TB over the internet which took forever.
Outside of that the largest "file" I've copied was just over 1TB which was a SQL file backup for our main databases at work.
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From an order of magnitude perspective, the max is terabytes. No "normal" users are dealing with petabytes. And if you are dealing with petabytes, you're not using some random poster's program from reddit.
For a concrete cap, I'd say 256 tebibytes...