Re: How to resume an scp transfer?

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_dodgy.net.au)
Date: 04/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 00:36:37 +0000 (UTC)

In article <d89364bd.0404260840.3da22c72@posting.google.com>,
John <johnfofawn@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I need to move multi-gigabyte files and I need the ability to resume.
>
>ssh and scp work so nicely (especially from command-line). Do I have
>to go back to ftp (ncftp) to get resuming?

I don't think the scp protocol (such as it is) has any capability to
resume a transfer. Sftp does, but not all implementation support it
(OpenSSH doesn't currently).

As someone else already said, use "rsync -e ssh". 

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