On 7/1/19, gru...@mailfence.com <gru...@mailfence.com> wrote: >> I had a hell of a time pulling it as I did a google search, and when the >> download had started, google was still in the firefox address bar, and >> I had to restart a timedout fail several hundred times. So I'm doing it >> again, and its coming it at an average of 1 meg/sec this time. I got the >> sha512 and info files too. >> > > try wget
Oh, my gosh, YES! "wget -c" rocks on dialup! After a quick search, from "man wget" comes: -t number OR --tries=number: Set number of tries to number. Specify 0 or inf for infinite retrying. The default is to retry 20 times, with the exception of fatal errors like "connection refused" or "not found" (404), which are not retried. For the "-c" flag: -c OR --continue: Continue getting a partially-downloaded file. This is useful when you want to finish up a download started by a previous instance of Wget, or by another program. "wget -c" has been a HUGE HERO in last few weeks. For some reason, "apt-get install" has multiple times now DELETED partial downloads and started over when it's for same upgrade version number. Never had that happen before. That's a pain when it's e.g. 20 or 30MB partials that represent 2 or 3 hours of download wear-and-tear time. "wget -c" gets in there and successfully FINISHES off that exact same partial dotDEB archive download now. YES... I've had to learn to... incrementally backup even partial dotDEB downloads for moments just like this. You do what you gotta do when *IT WORKS!* PS #ThankYou, Developers! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed.. and possibly even a Raspberry Pi sooner than later! k/t #OSNews for being the first to get giddy with that news in my inbox last week. *
