Resuming SCP file transfers
After a large file transfer using the UNIX command SCP failed at around 90% for the third time, I finally had the sense to google how to resume an SCP file transfer.
It turns out that you can’t. But you can tunnel RSYNC over SSH which works like a charm. This tip is posted in numerous places online, but my SSH setup at home is slightly different, so I have to modify the SSH option as follows:
rsync --human-readable --partial --progress --rsh="ssh -l username -p 2012"
domain.name:/path/to/file .
This just points out again how great a program SSH is. Its uses are truly multitudinous. It’s like the swiss army knife of UNIX commands.