I would like to copy some transcoded files from my sister's machine across the internet to mine. I would be happy with a partial copy, ie, I don't want to have to wait for the entire file to copy before watching it. But most importantly, i would need to resume from where I left off if we are disconnected.

Her network is very slow and rsync with --partial and --inplace did not help. Her connection is too slow for MythstreamTV as well. On the otherhand, her setup with KnoppMyth R5E50 is fantastic and MythStreamTV works just fine in her home LAN.

Does anyone have an idea for something, perhaps a peer to peer setup that i can use to reconnect and continue when we lose and then regain the network connection? Using Rsync and scp get me a few hundred meg but at some point it dies.

thanks in advance for any suggestions,

chris

I think wget with the -c option can be used to do what you want (see man wget). If there are a lot of files, you might want to tar or zip them into a single file.

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Thanks, that's a great suggestion. I read the man page, and so I am using nohup and wget and this is working well.

I will use wget -c to continue if it dies after the default number of retries. thanks!