[wellylug] wget for big files
Mark Foster
blakjak at blakjak.net
Wed Mar 2 12:51:13 NZDT 2011
Hi Rob,
I'm curious to know what prompted you to post. If something's available
for HTTP download, and knowing that wget -c lets you resume downloads,
unsure of anything else that would suggest there's a better way?
Mark.
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Rob Collins wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I am planning on using wget -g to obtain the new Opensuse 11.4 to be released
> to public mirrors in just over a weeks time. What is the general feeling on
> whether this is a good approach for downloading a large 4.7GB file? I tried
> using firefox downthemall download manager in the past very often with
> broken/non resumable connection results.
>
> Am planning on using the citylink ftp server to download from and just don't
> want to get to 95% downloaded and then connection unresumable frustrating
> drama's.
>
> Thanks for any assistance.
>
> Rob Collins
>
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