SCP doesn't complete transfers of large files

Bill C. Riemers cygwin@docbill.net
Thu Jan 29 09:20:00 GMT 2004


I remember a post about a month of  ago that described the bug in detail.
The problem is even more problematic with rsync.  The author of the message
went on to propose a solution.  Unfortunately, I don't think the person was
a programmer, so there was no actual source code patch.  It doesn't seem
like anybody else had time to look into the problem.  I keep meaning to, but
work always gets in the way.  About the best I can do is suggest the
workaround I normally use...

ssh -T foo "tar cfz - somedirectoryorfile"|tar xvvfz -

Certainly, this is ugly, but it works without the incomplete transfer
problem.

                                               Bill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elliott Wilcoxon" <elliott@wilcoxon.org>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 3:38 PM
Subject: SCP doesn't complete transfers of large files


> This issue doesn't happen on my Linux boxes, so I suspect it's a Cygwin
> issue.  Whenever I try to transfer a file that's a bit over 700MB in
> size via SCP, it will transfer up to the 99% line, then stall everytime.
>   I can transfer smaller files just fine.  This problem can be seen with
> a current Cygwin install, and it shows up for stuff that's been around
> for ~2 months, which was when I first noticed the issue, but didn't
> realize the nature of it.
>
> Elliott Wilcoxon
>
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