compressing and splitting large files

hi

I frequently need to move larger databases around, and I have been running into various problems with files larger then 4 GB. Most of the file ‘splitting’ utilities and compression utilities cant handle them (undefined and defined errors) and some of those that can dont let me redefine the directory where the ‘temporary’ files used during compression are stored.

Does anyone have a reliable and proven way of compressing and moving large (eg 10 GB files from one windows 2k machine to another over a network/internet?)

So far I’ve been able truncate non-vital tables to get the core database back below 4GB and was able to compress, but I wont be able to do this for much longer

Thanks, Peter