[lug] ftp problem

[George Sexton]

What if you try:

tar -c path | bzip2 > file.tar.bz2

And then transmit it.

George Sexton
MH Software, Inc.
http://www.mhsoftware.com/
Voice: 303 438 9585
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us 
> [mailto:lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us] On Behalf Of Gary Hodges
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 4:32 PM
> To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [lug] ftp problem
> 
> For another test I tried uploading ten uncompressed tar files 
> and four 
> came in without problems.  Tar archives are sequential, 
> right?  I think 
> it is strange that files are randomly missing from the tar 
> archives.  If 
> the transfer didn't finish, wouldn't the files be missing 
> from the end?  
> I'll play with the size verification code below and the md5 
> suggestion 
> too...
> 
> Gary
> 
> Ron Wright wrote:
> 
> >Also, at ftp time you can verify the size on both ends.  Use:
> >   $localsize = (stat($filename))[7];
> >   $remotesize = $ftp->size($filename);
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:05:06 -0700, Daniel Webb 
> <lists at danielwebb.us> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:36:11AM -0700, Gary Hodges wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Is it possible the firewall is stripping files out of the 
> tar archive or
> >>>should we look somewhere else?
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>My guess is that the missing files are at the end of the 
> archive, and
> >>the archives are sometimes not getting through completely.  
> Maybe add
> >>something to your script to send along an md5 hash to make sure the
> >>received file is the same as the sent file.  The last place I would
> >>suspect would be that a firewall is set up to examine and 
> filter .tar.gz
> >>files...
> >>    
> >>
> 
> 
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