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Re:My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions by dn3500 on Monday January 11, 2021 @08:04PM (#25740872)
To transfer a multi-hundred-GB file I'd use something restartable like rsync or wget instead of nc.
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Re:My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions by kayodelycaon on Monday January 11, 2021 @08:16PM (#25740978)
The issue in the article could have been solved by running a long-running command with no output in screen or tmux. If ssh disconnects, just reattach.
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Re:My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions by cat199 on Monday January 11, 2021 @08:48PM (#25741222)
no, because this example was site->site data transfer across the disconnecting link
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Re:My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions by BossHamster on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @01:42AM (#25743239)
yes, because the issue was not the site data transfer, but the idle SSH session(s) running the nc commands. When the idle SSH session got dropped, it took nc down with it and that stopped the transfer.
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Re:My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions by the8472 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:22AM (#25743849)
no need for tmux, nohup would have done the job.
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