On Sunday 07 December 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 15:39 +0000, Mick wrote:
> > They are the the split files which I concatenate into the complete file. > > Well, unless you made another error in your OP, you are using md5sum > incorrectly. When you use "-c", md5sum expects a file that is a list of > files/checksums. For example [snip...] > Yes, but if you are truly using "-c" then it would make sense that you > could get a checksum error but the file be ok. Sorry, yes I used the md5sum -c command correctly with the corresponding checksum file for the big_file. > Here's how I would do it. I'm not saying you should do it this way. > I'd use rsync. Rsync does file xfer has checksumming built-in. You say > you split because you get disconnected, right? I'm not sure if rsync > handles re-connects, but you can write a loop so that if rsync fails you > continue where you left off: > > status=30 > until [ $status -eq 0 ] ; > do > rsync --append-verify big_file server_name:/htdocs/<directory_path>/ > status=$? > done > > No splitting/concatenating and no need to checksum. Wouldn't the server need to have rsyncd running to be able to do that? Can I rsync to an ftp server? Also, how would I pass username/passwd on the command line so that the upload can take place unattended? Thank you for your replies. -- Regards, Mick
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