Broken snapshot archives

[Tomasz Zielonka]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:30:10PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
> >Some recent GHC snapshot files seem to be broken.
> 
> Yes, this is due to a long-standing problem with our firewalls that 
> sometimes cause corruption of an SSH connection.  I'll try to make it retry 
> or delete the file on failure instead of leaving a broken tarball in place.

Try using "rsync". It doesn't leave partially transferred files (unless
you ask it to do it). The file on the target machine is first created
with a different name, and renamed to the final name only if it was
transferred successfully.

rsync can work over SSH, and in the basic scenario has similar
command-line options.

Best regards
Tomasz