Jochen Roderburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Petr Kras schrieb: >> When transfer is broken and restoration is required >> it doesnt work for files greater than 4GB (not checked for 2GB) >> and brake is behind 4GB (2GB) limit. > >> --13:58:54-- ftp://streamlib.pan.eu/Streams/TVDC_SS_01100.ts >> => `/opt/streams/Stream1/TVDC_SS_01100.ts' >> ==> CWD not required. >> ==> PORT ... done. ==> REST 4998699942 ... REST failed, starting >> from scratch. >> ==> RETR TVDC_SS_01100.ts ... done. >> Length: 5,632,104,188 (5.2G), 633,404,246 (604M) remaining > > Looks more like your FTP server does not support the REST command > which is needed for partial transfers.
Or, even more likely, that the server isn't fully 64-bit aware, and its REST chokes on sizes >=2^31. In that case, Wget does what it can: downloads the whole file, ignoring the section it has already seen, and starting appending from the last size onward. That way the file never gets truncated.
