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  • From: "Jim Ray" <jim AT neuse.net>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] File transfer site?
  • Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:43:02 -0500

I use filezilla.

Regards,

Jim

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:internetworkers-
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Scott Chilcote
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 10:37 AM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] File transfer site?
>
> zman wrote:
> > FTP is pretty much dead as we know it. SFTP and SCP have taken over. FTP
> > is not secure and it you care about your data you will not use it. NCSU
> > even got rid of FTP the end of last year.
>
> This reminds me of a related problem I had to solve last week.
>
> I needed to make a very large (over 1 GB) zip archive file available for
> download to another employee at a remote location.
>
> At first I wanted to use SCP, but the problem we had was that the
> connection would time out. We are both on residential broadband, and
> for whatever reason he could copy between 100 and 300 MB before the
> transfer would hang.
>
> The only way I could think of to get around this limitation is to
> provide the file as an FTP download, because many FTP clients have a
> "resume" feature where they will retry when the transfer times out and
> pick up where it left off.
>
> Fortunately I was using CentOS, which has Very Secure FTP (vsftp) as
> part of the distribution. I was able to configure it so that only one
> specific user/password was able to log in.
>
> Are there SFTP/SCP clients that support retry/resume? It would be a
> better solution if so.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott C.
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