Re: resuming file transfer with scp

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel@bellatlantic.net)
Date: 11/22/02 

From: "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@bellatlantic.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 05:50:14 GMT

"Kyler Laird" <Kyler@news.Lairds.org> wrote in message
news:mmkva-c1l.ln1@news.lairds.org...
> [Whoops! I mailed this instead of posting it the first
> time. Sorry, Nico.]
>
> "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@bellatlantic.net> writes:
>
> >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.
>
> The file is constantly growing, so this would be a real pain.
>
> Disk space is also a concern. If I split, I use twice the
> space on the client. If I use rsync, I have to have enough
> space on the destination for the previous partial transfer
> plus the next chunk transfered. Worse, I have to wait for
> the second copy to be created before anything is transfered.

Then it's not the same file. That's.... a bit more complicated.

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