filezilla, error while writing failure

Question

I'm transferring a very large (35GB) file through SFTP and FileZilla.

Now the transfer is 59.7% done, but I keep getting this error, and it hasn't changed that number for hours.

Error:     File transfer failed after transferring 1,048,576 bytes in 10 seconds
Status:    Starting upload of C:\Files\static.sql.gz
Status:    Retrieving directory listing...
Command:   ls
Status:    Listing directory /var/www/vhosts/site/httpdocs
Command:   reput "C:\Files\static.sql.gz" "static.sql.gz"
Status:    reput: restarting at file position 20450758656
Status:    local:C:\Files\static.sql.gz => remote:/var/www/vhosts/site/httpdocs/static.sql.gz
Error:     error while writing: failure

Why do I keep getting this error?

Check disk space [here](http://www.tecmint.com/how-to-check-disk-space-in-linux) — Günay Gültekin, Nov 17 '14 at 09:46

score 77 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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Credit to cdhowie: The remote volume was out of space.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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answered Jan 25 '11 at 19:11

Adam

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This is huge... I was going out of my mind before I thought to contact the hardware department and see how much space they had reserved for the vm I was uploading to. – Steven Mann Oct 20 '15 at 14:19
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you're a livesaver – LAX1DUDE Jul 18 '18 at 01:36
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made my day! :D – Taras Melon Nov 13 '19 at 15:59

score 16 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 10 '13 at 09:34

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I encountered the same situation. Go to your server, run "df" command to see if there is a problem of hard disk space.

answered Jan 10 '13 at 09:34

lephix

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 17 '10 at 16:43

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http://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Network_Configuration#Timeouts_on_large_files

answered Nov 17 '10 at 16:43

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 09 '20 at 16:47

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Recently faced this issue, Turned out to be the disk space issue. Removed some old logs, specially mysqld.log file which was in GBs. It worked after that.

answered Nov 09 '20 at 16:47

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linux.cnf · Answer 5 · 2022-08-05T16:42:22.867

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filezilla, error while writing: failure issue occurred when server storage is full. Login in Linux server and Kindly run below two commands to find out which files are consuming max storage in /var/log recursively..

for MB Size:

sudo du -csh $(sudo find /var/log -type f) |grep M|sort -nr

For GB size:

sudo du -csh $(sudo find /var/log -type f) |grep G|sort -nr

edited Aug 05 '22 at 16:42

answered Jul 20 '21 at 12:39

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 25 '22 at 21:17

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In our case it was because the file exceeded the user's quota. We use Virtualmin and the virtual server had a default quota of just 1GB. Increasing that value in Virtualmin solved the problem.

answered Apr 25 '22 at 21:17

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 18 '20 at 06:31

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This happened when I tried to replace the file which was already open or running in the background. Once closed, I was able to overwrite the file.

answered Dec 18 '20 at 06:31

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