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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Checksums of fileparts on the remoteserver
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Gabriel Ambuehl |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Checksums of fileparts on the remoteserver |
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Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:52:00 +0200 |
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On Saturday 15 September 2007 02:08:45 Dennis Schulz wrote:
> to be sure everything was tranferred correctly. So the
> XMD5-FTP-extension could do this. But
> duplicity needs to support this in order to work. If some part is trash
> it could resend this part and check again.
> I recently had some problems when mirroring those packets over FTP to
> another server.
> I checked the MD5-hash manually to determine those files. About 80 parts
> had errors of about 1300.
Point taken. While I don't use FTP (except for the occasional anon ftp ;) I
can definitely see how that could be useful (and easily emulated if you have
ssh access I guess?). Is XMD5 anything like widely supported on FTP daemons
as it does sound like a perfect way to DoS the FTP server?
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