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I'm always interested in tools that can download only changed chunks, or repair damaged files without having to re-download the whole lot. Habit, after being on extremely slow connections for about 15 years.

See also:

* http://atterer.org/jigdo

* https://multipar.eu/

* I've abused webseed support in torrent clients to do similar things - a downloader based on the torrent chunk hashing format would be quite interesting

* rsync can do it, maybe

* http://xdelta.org/ - have used this to patch Raspberry Pi images




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