Hadoop tool(s) for weekly file transfer - Flume?

[AndyE]

Dear Friends

I need to transfer files 2-5 GB (in different directories). 

1. Can I use Flume? 
2. If not, any other Hadoop tool available? Is there a recommended tool/best practices?
3. Is it possibile to automate each file transfer flume job (schedule it weekly directly or use other tool)
4. Can I set up Flume (or any other job scheduling tool which runs Flume job) the way that I get notified (preferably by email) if an specific file transfer job failed?

Any help/ link much appreciated.

Thanks much in advance and please let me know if you need more info.

Kind regards

Andy

[joey]

Flume is a great tool for transferring records from large files, but not large files themselves. For example, if your files are CSV or some other format that has a single record per line, then Flume will be able to handle that just fine. If you need to send the files as-is, then Flume isn't a good fit.

If you need to send the files as-is, I'd recommend checking out Apache NiFi (http://nifi.incubator.apache.org) which is in the ASF incubator.

-Joey