I've used scp and cat over ssh with no issues.  I even cat over ssh a 
40GB drive once.  Cat it back to restore the drive.

George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
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Confidential data protection experts for the financial industry.


Victor Odhner wrote:
> Is there a file transfer protocol that will verify
> the data as it comes across, and retry any failed
> blocks?  Apparently sftp is not doing this.
> 
> I have a 1.5 GB .bz2 file on one computer that I am
> trying to transfer to another nearby, via a local
> router.  I don't have DVD drives.  (Both boxes have
> USB ports, would that work better?)
> 
> In two attempts (30 minutes each), the number of
> bytes received at least has been right.  But the
> files arrive broken (according to bunzip2 -t) and
> md5sum has given non-matching results.
> 
> The two wrong results have differed from each other,
> so I will try once again . . .  Each try takes
> 30+ minutes.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Vic
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