[NBLUG/talk] FTPing large files

sean machin smachin1000 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 10 10:11:27 PST 2010


Guys,

I got my large FTP to work, switched to using wput, it looks like it was 
able to resume the upload after a dropped connection; my connection
did seem to drop a few times in the 7GB upload.

Thanks for the responses,
Sean
> sean machin wrote on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:30:47 -0800:
>
>   
>> I am using curl to do the FTP upload,
>>     
> [snip]
>   
>> Here's a sample of the exact command I run and
>> the error msg. I get.
>>
>> [sean at localhost ~]$ curl -T /tmp/backup/svn.tar.gz -u
>> uxxxxx:xxxxx ftp://xxxxx.com/backup/home/ibmp2/svn.tar.gz
>>     
> [snip]
>   
>> curl: (55) select/poll returned error
>>     
>
> A little Googling shows you're in good company. Many others are
> getting that error as well. This post suggests setting the
> Transfer-Encoding to "chunked":
> http://markmail.org/message/2pdplxa2a44syvrg
> You do so by adding this to your invocation of cURL:
>   --header "Transfer-Encoding: chunked"
>
> Alternatively, you could try upgrading to the latest version of
> cURL, which may have fixed the problem.
>
> If that doesn't work, try a different FTP client. I suggest
> lftp. It's an excellent versatile CLI app that is very
> scriptable.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lftp
>
> (To clarify for those who were suggesting, for example, Wget:
> Sean is trying to upload a large file, not download. I
> absolutely love Wget (I like the interface better than cURL),
> but it's for downloading only.)
>
> A.
>
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