Resuming an Interrupted Upload

Interrupted uploads can be resumed, provided that the necessary server support and permissions are available.  During an upload, an ExpeDat 1.11 server will create temporary files to keep track of the transaction.  See the Upload Status section of the server documentation for more information about using these files to track the status of partial uploads.

Interactive Resume

When no other options are specified, movedat will prompt you to either resume, start over, or skip any upload which is eligible to be resumed.  Selecting resume will continue from the point where the previous upload attempt was interrupted.  Choosing to start over will discard the previous attempt and transfer the entire file.

If you have the compression option (-z) selected, then your options will be to resume without compression, start over with compression, or skip the file.  Resuming with compression is not currently supported.

Resuming an upload should only be done if you are confident that the source file has not changed since the previous upload attempt.  ExpeDat will attempt to detect changes, but can be fooled.  Resuming an upload after a file has changed may result in corrupted data.

Automated Resume

The following options determine how movedat will respond to resumeable uploads:

If none of the options above is specified and the terminal is not interactive, then attempts to upload when a partial upload already exists will fail.

Streaming Input

Data streamed from stdin cannot be used to resume an upload.