Fernando Cassia <fcassia <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Just use "wget" from a shell or terminal, NOT a web browser.
>
> Wget allows you to use the "-c" parameter so in the event that the TCP
> connection stalls or is dropped, it will re-connect and continue from
> the position where the file was interrupted (resume) instead of
> re-downloading the whole file again.
>
> In short: wget -c http:// is your friend.
Actually, you normally don't need "-c". From the wget man page:
Note that you don't need to specify this option if you just want
the current invocation of Wget to retry downloading a file should
the connection be lost midway through. This is the default
behavior. -c only affects resumption of downloads started prior to
this invocation of Wget, and whose local files are still sitting
around.
So if you were downloading Fedora-14-i386-DVD.iso before, then stopped it with
Ctrl-C, you would have to use "-c" to tell wget to resume downloading the
existing file Fedora-14-i386-DVD.iso instead of creating a new file
Fedora-14-i386-DVD.iso.1. But the first time you run wget, you don't need it.
Also, in the (extremely unlikely) event a download is corrupted, rsync can be
used to repair it (though the man page is intimidating). BitTorrent can also be
used for this, but in general isn't as efficient. Some of the mirrors provide
rsync, so between wget and rsync, it should never be necessary to do a full
download more than once.
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