Interruptible Secure Downloads from Linux to Windows

[David T. Ashley]

I often use an SFTP client to pull down large backup files (up to 10GB) from
my Linux machine (about 100 miles away) to my Windows machine. But if the
download dies in the middle, I have to start again. Sometimes I use "split"
to break up a large file and then download the little files, but then
concatenating the files on a Windows system is a hassle.

Is there any secure download manager that will recover from temporary
communication failures ... to save me the trouble of cracking up my large
files and then reassembling them?

Thanks.

[Lew Pitcher]

On August 22, 2008 20:05, in alt.os.linux, David T. Ashley (d...@e3ft.com)
wrote:
[snip]

> Is there any secure download manager that will recover from temporary
> communication failures ... to save me the trouble of cracking up my large
> files and then reassembling them?

You can use rsync over ssh. Ssh provides the network security, and rsync
provides the "download manager". Since rsync is built to replicate files in
an efficient manner, and only downloads the parts of the file that are
different on each machine, it can be "interrupted" with full recovery.

Both rsync and ssh are available for Windows, and come native in most Linux
distributions. (For a Windows ssh, I recommend PuTTY)

You might want to Google /rsync +ssh/; the first couple of links are
excellent (the 2nd link leads to http://oreilly.com/pub/h/38 )

HTH
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Lew Pitcher

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[John Hasler]

David T. Ashley writes:
> Is there any secure download manager that will recover from temporary
> communication failures ...

Lots of them for Linux, but you are evidently on Microsoft Windows. Your
problem has to do with the client.

Winscp evidently has "resume" capability.
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John Hasler
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Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA