ftp

[j773303]

Hi expert,
I've a quesion about ftp transimission files.
Due to network is not stable while ftp in trasporting file, once the connection is broken, can ftp support to continuet to transfer file and begining with the broken time. HPUX version is 11i V1 , V2. Any other ftp tools can support this ? Thanks in advanced.

[Safarali]

You can use cute ftp it is free software


Regards

Safar

[Steven Schweda · Accepted solution]

If you're fetching the file, wget offers an
option:

-c, --continue resume getting a partially-downloaded file.

http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html

This relies on the FTP server knowing how to
send part of a file, and I don't know if I'd
trust anything like this unless I knew how
clever it was. Knowing nothing, I can
imagine a broken connection leaving a partial
file with some bad data at the end, so asking
to restart at bytes_I_have + 1 might be too
simple. (Backing up some, and looking for
matching data, would be safer. I don't know,
but I doubt that wget does that.)

[j773303]

Thanks for the response.