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I always used SFTP for copying up CMS systems, modify system/user files, or files related to sites and similar. Small things. Even if the file was larger, I could just wait it out.
But now I have to transfer large amount of files.
Using WinSCP, I have two problems:
- Due to latency, it's really slow to start a transfer. Like that takes 2-3 seconds, and that is a huge minus. More threads (even 2 or above) would help, but I don't think WinSCP supports this.
- Resume/Retry support/questions: I had it in my settings that it should re-try. And it didn't. The dialog popped up about what I want with a partially complete file. This behaviour is legit, but when we talk about thousands of files, I have no time to sit around the computer all day to see which transfer fails. It shold just retry.
Is there such an SFTP client?
do you need the encryption and secure connection offered by SFTP? if not, just use FTP :) – Gotschi – 2013-12-14T11:47:08.533
@Gotschi: SFTP is not just security, it also handles special characters better. (Did, for me.) I know this would require like two SSH clients working or more, I don't really care about that part. Server load is not an interest either, it's just the latency that makes it slow, not the server's CPU. – Apache – 2013-12-14T12:02:03.957