SCP with Resume Feature

Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel at gmail.com
Sun Apr 4 01:41:46 AEDT 2021


On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 11:52 PM Bob Proulx <bob at proulx.com> wrote:
>
> rapier wrote:
> > User demand and it's a deliverable for a project. Like I said in my first
> > message I know that rsync can do basically the same thing but ya know,
> > deliverables need to be delivered. Just thought I'd share the results.
>
> I would be inclined to act as a BOFH and replace scp with a script
> wrapper that called rsync.  "There!  I deliverd an scp that handles
> resume.  Problem solved."
>
> Bob

Rewriting security sensitive binaries to solve a problem that is
already solved at the command line, with a great deal more flexibility
and power, is also usually a really, really bad idea.


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