[mythtv-users] OT: large file transfer inturruption/recover

[Dylan Semler]

On 5/22/06, Paul V. Gratz <pgratz at gratz1.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday 22 May 2006 10:25 am, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> > On 5/22/06, Dylan Semler <dylan.semler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'm working remotely and I would like to record and transfer some NHL
> games
> > > while I'm away.  I can use scp, but the internet connection here is
> less
> > > than reliable and if the transfer gets inturrupted, I'm left with part
> of
> > > the game and I have to start the transfer over.  Is there any way to
> use scp
> > > or possible something else and resume a file transfer where it left
> off
> > > whenever there's a break in the connection?
> >
> > How about rsync?  That can resume a partial transfer...
> >
>
> You can also setup rsync to use ssh (scp) underneath, so this is
> probably a good solution.
> Paul



Thanks, I'm using rsync now and it's working well.  It also seems to be a
bit faster than scp, so that's cool.
Why is it so important to use ssh underneath?  Can I verify that passing -e
ssh to the rsync command is sufficient to tunnel it through ssh?

Dylan
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20060522/33a6944a/attachment.htm