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"Auto-Resume If your transfer is interrupted, it will automatically resume, even if you restart your computer." Interesting feature. So far I've only see torre

• nl 15y ago
  It's actually pretty common, even if most browsers don't support it well. Get a download manager (wget -c is my favourite), and it will work for you, too. Most HTTP server support HTTP-Range queries, which allows resuming downloads. FTP (of course) has always supported this feature.
  • Groxx 15y ago
    I've used rsync --partial to move very large quantities of files between computers (> 1 million once). Especially on many files, it generally runs several times faster than the OS's copy-to-networked-computer functionality, and it resumes in an instant. It's even faster if you run a daemon on the other end, so you don't need to do a bunch of back-and-forth to determine if a file is new or not. It boggles my mind that OSX (for example) doesn't just use this under the hood, especially when sending to other OSX machines. It's an OS speaking to itself - spinning up a daemon automatically on the receiver would be trivial.
    • lawnchair_larry 15y ago
      Congratulations, you just invented dropbox ;)
      • wingworks 15y ago
        Dropbox is horribly slow when working with 1000+ files. Especially if they are small files. Last time I tried it Drobbox would use 100% CPU and go rather slow (while rsync didn't). This was about a year ago though, things may have been made better by now.