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With African internet cafes, you won't be trasnferring any large files :P I would not even trust using an FTP to upload files anywhere near 60GB (much less 600MB) from a Canadian internet cafe. Uploading is generally very slow and even frowned upon in public places and I have never heard of anybody ever doing or contemplating that. It sounds kind of crazy to be honest, I can't think of any internet cafe even here, that would even let you do that sort of thing.

It would cost you more money sitting for a week straight or more at the fastest highspeed internet cafe here in Calgary trying to upload 60GB than buying an external harddrive. Africa, even in the biggest modern cities would probably take you spending the entire 5 months sitting at the same computer of constant uploading just for 60GB. I'm also thinking Cairo's internet prices will be like Europe and that means pay through the nose for internet that is too slow to even browse websites properly.

Seriously, do as others suggested and buy a 1TB drive. When onsale, I have seen them for close to $200. A TB drive is 225 DVDs worth. Bring a cheap laptop with you to use in the room where you are staying. Popping out so much hardware at an internet cafe in Africa is a recipe for guaranteed theft as is the case with continental Europe and South America. If the laptop is too big to lug around, try one of those camera to usb to drive recommendations but no guarantee it will work, especially with a Sony camera which is usually extremely proprietary. You might as well buy a tiny laptop like an EEE PC or a UMPC and sell them when you get back.

Another thing to do is lower the quality of your recording, unless you are filming a safari with David Attenborough, you really don't need full quality.