Maybe he wants the file to appear smaller for other reasons? It is “restricted” to quote the op.
Eric Chadbourne Nonprofit-CRM.org > On Jun 23, 2015, at 11:17 AM, Mike Small <[email protected]> wrote: > > John Malloy <[email protected]> writes: > >> I have a log file (325MB) that I need to transfer from a restricted >> network, that I cannot plug a USB into. >> >> Is there an easy way to "split up" the log file into smaller chunks and Zip >> it to get it over the net? > > So Jerry and Jack have pointed you to split, but why do you want to > split it into chunks? > > I must admit I've not dealt with any networks lately that I couldn't > reliably download a 300 MB file on, but is it not still possible to > resume interrupted transfers? Are you using vanilla ftp, http or scp? > > If you're using scp, I'd be inclined not to zip it but to use ssh's > compression so when it finally does arrive I wouldn't have to unzip and > then again find something else to do while that happens. But I guess scp > doesn't support resume (hmmm, maybe ssh dd and adjust the offset based > on the file size after the failure? -- perhaps that's more trouble than > splitting). > > By "restricted network" do you mean that rsync is not an option? > > -- > Mike Small > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
