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  • From: Scott Chilcote <scottchilcote AT earthlink.net>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] File transfer site?
  • Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:37:02 -0500

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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