Re: Need to upload 2 GB file to server, how ?

From: +Alan Hicks+ (alan_at_lizella.netWORK)
Date: 06/30/05 

Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 03:42:36 -0000

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In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, siliconmike dared to utter,
> I think rsync is what I want then, since it makes the upload safe from
> interruption while a multi-hour upload session going on.
>
> Or how about using split to split the file into fragment files before
> uploading?

Some one correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't rsync do something
similar to this anyhow by splitting the file into multiple smaller
chunks and taking md5sums of those chunks so it only has to move the
pieces that have changed?

> In this case how do I join the fragments?

man cat

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