Hi all, I'm a casual user looking to break away from Windows. I use CuteFTP
a lot over there and one function I can't seem to replicate is its ability
to break a single file into multiple parts to increase transfer speed.
I've come to call this segmented downloads but I've no idea if that's the
right term. I have a dedicated server in Europe which sometimes has
ridiculously slow speeds to the U.S. and this function has really come in
handy.
I've been browsing through the lftp documentation and man pages and, while
I think I've come across that exact thing, I'm having a hard time knowing
for certain.
If I want to grab an entire directory I've found I can use "mirror
--parallel=5 dir_name" to open up five separate threads and increase the
speed of the transfer that way.
It sounds like pget might do what I want with single files, but I'm unsure.
I've also found that I can use pget in conjunction with mirror but again
I'm unsure if that's doing what I want. In a brief test last night I found
I was getting basically the same speed with and without pget. With CuteFTP
I would see multiple part files in the directory and they would be
recombined once the download finished.
Could someone elaborate in basic terms what pget does, if it does what I
want, and maybe how it works with mirror.
For the latter I see that using pget with mirror transfers every single
file (something I thought mirror would do on its own). pget can also be
used on its own and gets the file using multiple connections, which seems
like it's what I want, but I'm not sure.
Appreciate any assistance,
Dave
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