Re: resuming file transfer with scp

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel@bellatlantic.net)
Date: 11/21/02 

From: "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@bellatlantic.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 05:33:48 GMT

"Kyler Laird" <Kyler@news.Lairds.org> wrote in message
news:l8rta-026.ln1@news.lairds.org...
> I was surprised to recently discover that scp does not
> handle resuming a file transfer. Instead, I was forced
> to use rsync. That'd be o.k., but rsync is very
> inefficient in handling partial transfers (even with
> --size-only). (I'm dealing with large files and slow
> networks that die occasionally, so this is getting
> annoying.)
>
> Has anyone considered adding a "resume transfer"
> capability to scp?
>
> I'm probably going to resort to some horrible kludge
> involving "dd", but that's not something I'm likely to
> recommend to others.

Use tar and gzip to bundle up the directory, then segment the big old file
into reasonable size chunks with the "split". Then rsync those to your local
directory and rsync those.

Reaching back to my old UUCP days for this one....

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