Would it be worth setting up a BitTorrent tracker for builds? BitTorrent is very reliable, excellent at resuming, doesn't require command line use, and can take advantage of local seeds.
Best, Wade 2008/6/9 Carol Lerche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here is what I did when I was fighting battles with an unreliable > connection a few months ago. (It doesn't solve the cost of downloading, but > it does solve the lost connection problem). Use > > wget -c url-of-the-wanted-file > > This command line program will allow you to resume the download again and > again when the inevitable happens and the connection is lost. If you find > that it downloads more reliably if you limit the bandwidth, there is another > option to set a rate limit, namely: > > wget --limit-rate=20k -c url-of-the-wanted-file > > (the rate is given in bytes per second, so the above example is 20,000 > bytes per second). > > Living at the far end of the DSL reaches, wget is my favorite program! > > Regards, > > Carol Lerche > > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:29 AM, James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> No, FTP is not more reliable, if you have a problem with HTTP downloads >> of the image you will have the same problems with FTP. >> >> Yes, it can be made available in smaller chunks, but it is best to >> download it with a restartable downloader, which recovers from >> interruptions. wget on Linux can do this, as can rsync. There are >> restartable downloaders available for other operating systems. Ability >> to restart at last known point after an interruption is inherent in the >> HTTP, FTP and rsync protocols. But many HTTP clients do not use the >> feature. >> >> Yes, there is a better way of making new builds and updates available, >> and that is the olpc-update mechanism. It restarts from where it was >> disconnected as well, since it uses rsync. >> >> -- >> James Cameron mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://quozl.netrek.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> > > > > -- > "Always do right," said Mark Twain. "This will gratify some people and > astonish the rest." > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > >
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