Hi fellow PLUGgers,
In a previous post I said that I used wget because together with screen,
it was great for me. Well, today it failed me and I don't want to ever use
it to download ISOs anymore. A download of MandrakeFreq stopped in midair,
and a 'wget -c <...>' supposedly continued the download. Unfortunately I
noticed the file went from 600MB to 700MB to 800MB and that's MUCH BIGGER
than the ISO is. So I had to delete the ISOs and start from zero (just
MandrakeFreq, the rest of my ISOs are waiting to be burned onto discs).
I'm thinking of using ncftp3's bgget command (which creates a spool and
then runs ncftpbatch that in turn downloads files in the spool
one-by-one). I do not know how reliable ncftpbatch is for large files,
though. I'd appreciate it if the daemon didn't halt in midair and just
forget about my download. I don't want to have to keep checking in on it
to find out how it's doing.
Is there any other alternative utility that can handle these large
downloads reliably? BTW, I am looking for console-based applications only.
No GTK-based downloaders, please. :)
--> Jijo
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