Boost Your Download Speed with lftp Segmentation

Looking for a faster way to download files via sftp to a Linux machine? Try using "lftp" instead. This tool offers segmented downloading, which allows you to download a file using multiple connections.

To get started, install lftp with the following command:

yum -y install lftp

Then, use the following command to connect to your sftp server and download a file with 20 segments:

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lftp sftp://username@server_address
>pget -n 20 /path/to/file/bigfile.img

In our tests, we were able to download a 300 MB file in just 4 seconds with a good internet connection. By comparison, the same file took around 8 minutes with a single threaded connection.

To download an entire directory, use the "mirror" command with the "--use-pget-n" flag:

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mirror --use-pget-n=20 /path/to/directory

By using 20 segments, you can speed up the downloading process and get your files faster.