[lug] ftp problem

[Gary Hodges]

I could try it, but I think I have conclusively shown that the problem 
is in the transmission, not inherent in the files.  When a file has come 
in with errors I've verified it is OK on the machine it was created on.  
And often with a second attempt it comes in OK.

Cheers,
Gary

George Sexton wrote:

>What if you try:
>
>tar -c path | bzip2 > file.tar.bz2
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>And then transmit it.
>
>George Sexton
>MH Software, Inc.
>http://www.mhsoftware.com/
>Voice: 303 438 9585
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>
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>
>>-----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:
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>>>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:
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>>>>On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:36:11AM -0700, Gary Hodges wrote:
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>>>>>Is it possible the firewall is stripping files out of the 
>>>>>          
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>>tar archive or
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>>>>>should we look somewhere else?
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>>>>>          
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>>>>My guess is that the missing files are at the end of the 
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>>archive, and
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>>>>the archives are sometimes not getting through completely.  
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>>>>
>>Maybe add
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>>>>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 
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>>filter .tar.gz
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>>>>files...
>>>> 
>>>>