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Re:Shutting down FTP services by __s on Saturday January 28, 2017 @02:12PM (#13508172)
FTP does have some support for partial. One can request a specific start point in the file
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Re:Shutting down FTP services by laumars on Saturday January 28, 2017 @02:25PM (#13508334)
Have you ever tried resuming a failed download using that feature though? Support for it is so bad that it's usually quicker to just redownload the whole file from scratch.
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Re:Shutting down FTP services by __s on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @07:03PM (#13536746)
I have actually, at work I made a tool which has a SQL server backup/compress into a folder which I then download via FTP to restore on another server. I was having connection issues so I made the downloader reconnect/resume on disconnnect, fixing the issue
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