[NBLUG/talk] FTPing large files

[jezra]

On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:52:49 -0800
sean machin <smachin1000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm writing a python script for my Centos server which (among other 
> things), tries to FTP a large (7GB) archive image to another server 
> across the WAN.
> My script calls the curl program to do the upload.  Curl always seems
> to fail after a few 100MB however.
> 
> Any ideas on how best to transfer this large file?  I do not have SSH 
> access BTW so can't use scp.
> 
> Thanks :)
> Sean
> 
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Personally, I would use wget -c ftp://file/to/download for a
download that is likely to be interupted. The "-c" flag will allow wget
to pick up where it left off, so running wget -c ftp://file/to/download
will only get the needed bytes.