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by dn3500 1988 days ago
To transfer a multi-hundred-GB file I'd use something restartable like rsync or wget instead of nc.
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kayodelycaon 1988 days ago
The issue in the article could have been solved by running a long-running command with no output in screen or tmux. If ssh disconnects, just reattach.
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cat199 1988 days ago
no, because this example was site->site data transfer across the disconnecting link
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BossHamster 1988 days ago
yes, because the issue was not the site data transfer, but the idle SSH session(s) running the nc commands. When the idle SSH session got dropped, it took nc down with it and that stopped the transfer.
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the8472 1988 days ago
no need for tmux, nohup would have done the job.
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