resume scp after interrupted downloads (use rsync)

It doesn't seem to work everytime, after downloading 60% of 180MB, I used this command and had to restart the download at 0%. With another download it worked, dunno why...

You are my hero. This works so much better than other solutions I tried, for continuing the download on a 12 GB file.

Brilliant -- this just made downloading a 1.5 GB Oracle binary through a flaky connection oh so much easier. You, sir, are a genius.

Hello,

This is what I was looking for; unfortunately it doesn't work if there is no rsync installed on the target machine, it seems... I passed OK through the tunnel on my machine but then it threw this error:

$ rsync --partial --progress --port=16703 --rsh=ssh nowhereman@localhost:/tmp/archive.zip /home/nowhereman/tmp/ Password: sh: rsync: not found. rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.9/io.c(453)

And on the target machine I got this:

nowhereman:/tmp# rsync sh: rsync: not found.

Unfortunately I am not authorized to install software.. So I'll have to try again with scp :-(

To specify a port when using ssh you must add it to the ssh command. ex: rsync --partial --progress --rsh="ssh -p 16703" user@host:path

This should help nowhereman a little, but if you can't run rsync on the remote system it won't help in the long run.

If you want something more lightweight than rsync, you can use cURL with resume (-C -) flag: curl -T filename -C - -u yourlogin sftp://example.net/~/filename

Awesome. This is exactly what I needed. My ISP is being a bitch right now and closing my ssh connection every 5 minutes or so.

Beautiful... you trick with rsync/scp made my day - I was just able to resume 2-gigabytes scp transfer that got disconnected

Thank you very much. Works great and saved my day.

Sometimes this will not always work. So try these rsync options plus a bit a bash looping

while true; do

• rsync -P --partial-dir=.partial --exclude=.* SRC DEST;

• sleep 10;

-P is short for --partial and --progresss --partial-dir=.partial will put he partially downloaded file into directory called ".partial" for future downloading. It also tells rsync to look in this directory for a partially downloaded file to resume from. --exclude=.* tells rsync to stop any files for directories that start with a dot (eg .partial)

Thanks for the info.

Still very useful nearly two years after the original post!

Thanks for this post. I use --bwlimit=10 --rsh="ssh -p 443" options at work to get something from home without eating all upload bandwidth. Somehow scp also uses proxy settings from my browser.