[Gllug] Re: Transferring large files at specified times

[Sharon Kimble]

On Wednesday 06 Apr 2005 20:23, Ian Northeast wrote:
> Jon Dye wrote:
> > So does wget as long as his webserver supports resume (which it does),
> > in which case is there any advantage to using rsync over wget/http with
> > a small number of unchanging gzipped ISOs?
>
> Rsync can run over an ssh transport. OK, wget can run over HTTPS but
> it's easier IME to set up an sshd with key based authentication than an
> HTTPS server.
>
Last time that I looked wget could only transfer up to its limit of 2gigs, and 
dvd iso's can be greater than that.

Sharon.
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