SCP with Resume Feature

[Damien Miller]

On Sat, 3 Apr 2021, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:

> On 4/1/21 1:50 PM, rapier wrote:
> > Howdy all,
> >
> > I know development on SCP is discouraged but being that it's still
> > in wide use I thought I would do some work some of my users have
> > been asking for and allow SCP to resume from a partial transfer.
> 
> Would it be possible to instead reimplement SCP in terms of SFTP, and then add
> this feature to SFTP?  My understanding is that such a re-implementation is
> something many people have wanted for quite a while.

Yes, and there are patches to do this awaiting review:

https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/pull/194

-d