OT: Tape less Backup System

[Bill Vermillion]

On Tue, Jan 25 12:24 , while denying his reply is spam, Fairlight 
prattled on endlessly saying: 

> 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.

In standard ftp you have to specify the marker point - at least in
my man pages.

However   'reget' instead of 'get' does the same thing
automagically.

>From your pgh. on GetRight am I correct in assuming that you can
get from various places?  When you say 'filling in a zero'd file'
do you mean a file of zero-length - or a file that is pre-created
and filled with zeroes.

I ask that because zeroing a file is not the same as making
a file zero-length.  

We need to 'dis' ambiguity.

Bill
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