[ltp] Re: Copying Files

[Eben King]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, James Hawtin wrote:

> While many filesystems can support large files, many tools still seems to
> have problems from time to time, spliting is particularly useful if you want
> to copy the files over a network to another machine, ftp can have
> problems. Of course if there is a network problem part way though if you
> haven't split it up you have to start again.

Maybe.  It depends what FTP client you use.  ncftp (for example) supports 
resume.  I don't know how it deals with sparse files, but if you tar a 
sparse file, split the tar file, then ncftp thodr pieces, it doesn't have 
to.

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