Re: How to resume an scp transfer?

From: John (johnfofawn_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/27/04


Date: 27 Apr 2004 07:59:17 -0700

dtucker@dodgy.net.au (Darren Tucker) wrote in message news:<c6k9ul$200$1@gate.dodgy.net.au>...
> 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".

THANK YOU!

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