I tried uploading the archive to iCloud, but the server rejected it as too large. None of my other cloud storage accounts had enough free space.

Paying for extra space seemed overkill, given that this was literally a one-time P2P file transfer. I really should just be able to send a file to another IP address without having to pay for storage somewhere.

This works _really_ well: https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole

This was spotted on HN 3 weeks ago: https://github.com/schollz/croc

Would rsync have worked? A bit of googling gives this as the best set of answers I can find

https://serverfault.com/questions/53531/copy-large-file-from...

Sorry to keep bike shedding this!