From: Brandon Hines (brandon2i.com)
Date: Mon Jan 19 2004 - 20:06:39 CST

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You might look into using rsync over ssh. You will then get the best of
both worlds: ssh for security, and rsync for block level copying and
resuming of failed partial transfers.

piet wrote:
> ah you have something there!
> I need to upload photoos (as a photographer) so yes the files are large.
> when abroad I run into all kind of problems mailing them.
>
> Usually this is done by means of a mac and then use sagem easy-transfer
> isdn filetransfer protocol, but I use XP on my laptop and linux at home.
>
> Suse never answered my question on the easy transfer protocol support by
> linux,
> So I thought to ftp them to my homeserver and then mail them or whatever.
> piet
>
> Andreas Bittner wrote:
>
>>> The fine thing about sftp is, that it works out-of-the box. It runs
>>
>>
>> over
>>
>>> the ssh daemon :)
>>
>>
>>
>> only bad thing with sftp/scp is, that its not able to resume the
>> transfer of large files, or what about that capability of ftp?
>> on slow lines, huge files, dynamic dial lines and crowded connections,
>> this can be quite of an obstacle to get your data transferred.
>>
>> or is there any news about resume capabilites of sftp and other stuff
>> standard ftp is capable of?
>>
>> otherwise its kinda useless i would say in circumstanced described
>> above.
>>
>>
>
>

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