SCP resume aborted download

zahoo · 02-16-2005, 02:59 AM

Hi,

I got an SCP download stalled. I read the man file and all the topics @ Linuxquestions.org but I couldn't find any options for resuming the file I downloaded partially. Do you know the proper command line for SCP to resume aborted downloads?

Thanks!

ZAhoo

bbk · 02-16-2005, 04:11 AM

scp can't resume downloads. But. there is a way to hack around it with rsync.

if this was your attempt with scp:
scp file_to_transfer user@remotehost:/path/remote_file

then use rsync in the form of
rsync --partial file_to_transfer user@remotehost:/path/remote_file

(of course if file_to_transfer was on the server simply use the form as you used in scp)

I hope I could helped.

zahoo · 02-16-2005, 04:23 AM

Hi bbk,

you helped me a lot. What I want to know now that using rsync will I have a secured connections like with SCP or not? Thanx!

Zahoo

bbk · 03-08-2005, 03:51 PM

export RSYNC_RSH=ssh

then it does use ssh as the transport layer.