Re: resuming file transfer with scp

From: Magnus (magnueri@hotmail.com)
Date: 11/26/02 

From: magnueri@hotmail.com (Magnus)
Date: 26 Nov 2002 05:55:35 -0800

Kyler Laird <Kyler@news.Lairds.org> wrote in message news:<9742b-mht.ln1@news.lairds.org>...
> "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@bellatlantic.net> writes:

> >> The file is constantly growing, so this would be a real pain.

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

> I'm not aware of any reasonable solution for which a file that
> grows at the end is a complication.

> rsync can certainly handle without complaint, but I'm annoyed
> by its use of making a copy of the partial.

How about a horrible kludge using sz/rz then? ZModem is more or less
"designed for bad connections", so it might be an option.

I haven't used ZModem with growing files that I can think of, but I
don't think it would mind.

Magnus