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Originally Posted by HarrySpoofer
Q: WHAT IS THIS USEFUL FOR?
A: Scenario: You have been downloading a 16TB file over a slow FTP connection for a week but several bytes of the file came over corrupted.
This utility allows you to detect which bytes did not transfer correctly without doing the full 16TB file compare / re-download. This is done by running the SegmentedHash utility on the FTP server AND on the FTP client machine and comparing only the hashes of that big file before and after the transfer.
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This is a great concept but unless you own or at least have access to the FTP server, how on Earth would you be able to run that utility on the ftp
server?
This means that the FTP server owner also must know about this tool and then run this tool on their server side.
Or it is useful only in cases when you are transferring files between your
own servers...