OT: Tape less Backup System

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Tue Jan 25 09:24:04 PST 2005


Confusious (Jay Ashworth) say:
> 
> The FTP protocol allows you to retrieve *byte ranges*?  I wasn't aware of that.

How the hell else did you think it could do restarts on failed downloads?
:)  Apparently you don't do that very often, if at all.  I use GetRight all
the time, and it does segmented downloads, starting at various points and
filling in a zero'd file at each segment.

Yeah, you can do this quite easily.

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