[LUNI] resuming large slow transfer

[Mark Stuart Burge]

I have a windows solution that might prompt a linux way of doing the 
same thing ...

In the 'old' days, we used to use winzip to compress a large file into 
several smaller floppy images

You could try something similar perhaps with one of the linux archiving 
tools.
Compress and fragment the file into a bunch of smaller files, then try 
again, but build a shell script to send each one individually.




sten wrote:
> I'm attempting to scp a large amount of data (~8GB) to a friend's house.
> We're both on Comcast, and my upload rate is a measly 45KB on a good day.
> I'd sneaker-net it, but I keep forgetting, and at least this way it gets
> done. 
>
> Or not. 
>
> Since my link falls over about every 36 hours, I tried doing  rsync -r
> --partial --progress to pick up where I left off. When I do this over my
> wifi link from PC to PC, I get ~12MB/s on partial files vs the normal ~2.2,
> I'm assuming because rsync is jut doing a sanity check to make sure all the
> data is where it should be. However, when I do the same over the external
> line, I see no speed gain at all; its like I'm just transferring the files
> all over again. I tried using a --size-only, first in addition to
> --partial, then in place of it, to avoid sending files I've already sent,
> but that doesn't appear to help. Any suggestions on getting this stuff
> across? 
>
> Thanks!
>
> Sten
>
>