Scheduling downloads

[Luke Yelavich]

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On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 10:23:41AM EST, Georgina Joyce wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> My ISP requests that I schedule downloads during off peak hours and as I'm looking at downloading a DVD image, I'm wondering how I can start my download.
> 
> Of course I could wait until midnight and start the download but I wondered if there was a more automated way.  Even to stop at 08:00 and resume the following midnight.  I know that I could use cron but I would need to specify a time and the download location, which seems a little scary.  I'd usually use lftp but maybe another client might offer a solution?  Just thought, might wget do the job?  Any suggestions anyone?

This is something that is easily scriptable. You could write one script 
to start the download, and then have another script to find out the 
process ID of the currently running script for the download, and kill 
it. Wget is good, but make sure you use the command-line flag to resume 
downloads at a later time when you want the download to be resumed.

hth
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