Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Continue ftp upload without clobbering
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:17:18
Message-Id: 58965d8a0810161617n3373ce8ci4ae0c6f4782561b2@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Continue ftp upload without clobbering by Mick
1 On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Hi All,
3 >
4 > Is there a way to continue uploading a large file after the ftp link fails,
5 > only from the point where it failed onwards? I noticed tnftp (which I use)
6 > has the append command, but this appends the complete file from the start
7 > after the partial uploaded file, rather than continuing where it had stopped.
8 >
9 > I am really looking for some clever way to perform the ftp equivalent of
10 > wget -c sort of thing and if it can do that unattended then that would be
11 > even better!
12
13 You need to use the REST command to tell the server the position at
14 which you're going to resume, and then the client must send data from
15 there on. (I believe)