Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the detailed handler! I’ll give it a whirl. Blocking is
>> not really the problem for me; it’s the session timeouts or dropped
>> connection when downloading many files in a loop
>
> Unless you're using windows look at the command line wget, whose -C
> option will let you download continuing from where the file left
> off. You could access it with shell.
And if you are using Windows you can install Cygwin to avoid having to
deal with Microsoft-specific PowerShell and use industry standard shell
commands instead - it's free and open under GPL:
<https://www.cygwin.com/>
For transferring large numbers of files I prefer rsync because it uses
an uncommonly smart algo to avoid re-sending things that have already
been sent, and has an on-the-fly compression option for quick transport:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync#Algorithm>
I most commonly use the "-avz" options when transferring outside my
local network (just "-av" for local, since the compression isn't as
useful over Gb ethernet):
rsync -avz ~/LocalFolder/ user@server:/RemoteFolder/
...where:
a = archive mode, which is recursive and maintains mod dates, etc.
v = verbose, so you see a list of what's sent; if you don't need that
you can safely omit the "v"
z = on-the-fly gzip compression of file chunks for faster transport
Digital Ocean has a good introductory tutorial on rsync:
<https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-rsync-to-sync-local-and-remote-directories-on-a-vps>
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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