Friday, March 28, 2014

Trouble to copy a large file from a Checkpoint SPLAT system to a backup host using WinSCP

On of the main task of a responsible security engineer is regulary make a backup of its system.
As soon as I finish making a backup procedure of my Security Management server I've tried to copy that file (its size is almost 300 MB) using a program WinSCP which a newest version at that moment is 5.5.1


Copying it I've faced with a window that informs me that unexpectedly error has happened. After that my session was disconnected.


Somewhere in the net I read about this trouble and people recommended to use a lower version of WinSCP. I've decided to try a different version of it. Lots of my attempts were not succeed until I closed to a version 4.0.3

And it works!

The file was successfully copied to my backup host.