George Toft wrote:
> 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
> My IT Department
> www.myITaz.com
> 480-544-1067
> 
> 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

Another reason I'm thinking that Victor's problem is network related.

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-Eric 'shubes'
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