A Better FTP?

Posted by Cliff on Monday October 29, 2001 @10:56PM from the we-can-rebuild-it-we-have-the-technology dept.

cppgodjavademigod asks: "I used to work for a company that sold a file transfer product for datacenters. It supported checkpoint/restart, encyrpted password transmition, asynchonous job procesing, etc. Is there an Open Source project that aims to provide a better FTP? I'm looking for something that makes use of multiple paths (for machines connected via more than one network), job restart, job control, secure transmission (over internet), maybe even tunneling over HTTP and redundant servers (via some kind of private P2P protocol)."

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rsync has some features.. by slashkitty · 2001-10-30 02:23 · Score: 2, Redundant

not exactly FTP, but it does tranfer files. It tunnels over ssh, and can copy vast directory trees. And for slow connections, it can both compress the data, and only transfer the files and parts of files that are needed (sorta binary diff).

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