Other GNU/Linux tips

If you are using sftp to transfer files to and from servers on the internet securely, you will find that sftp cannot resume a broken file upload or download.

There are two solutions:

• Use putty's psftp.
• Install putty (under Debian GNU/Linux)

  # aptitude install putty

• Now use psftp instead of running sftp.
• Instead of using put and get commands, use reput and reget commands. These automatically resume if restarting an upload or download.
• Use rsync. The syntax to upload a file with resume:

  $ rsync —partial —progress —rsh=ssh localfile user@remotehost:directory/