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bitsadmin addfilewithranges

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Adds a file to the specified job. BITS downloads the specified ranges from the remote file. This switch is valid only for download jobs.

Syntax

bitsadmin /addfilewithranges <job> <remoteURL> <localname> <rangelist>

Parameters

Parameter Description
job The job's display name or GUID.
remoteURL URL of the file on the server.
localname Name of the file on the local computer. Must contain an absolute path to the file.
rangelist Comma-delimited list of offset:length pairs. Use a colon to separate the offset value from the length value. For example, a value of 0:100,2000:100,5000:eof tells BITS to transfer 100 bytes from offset 0, 100 bytes from offset 2000, and the remaining bytes from offset 5000 to the end of the file.

Remarks

  • The token eof is a valid length value within the offset and length pairs in the <rangelist>. It instructs the service to read to the end of the specified file.

  • The addfilewithranges command will fail with error code 0x8020002c, if a zero-length range is specified along with another range using same offset, such as:

    c:\bits>bitsadmin /addfilewithranges j2 http://bitsdc/dload/1k.zip c:\1k.zip 100:0,100:5

    Error message: Unable to add file to job - 0x8020002c. The list of byte ranges contains some overlapping ranges, which are not supported.

    Workaround: Don't specify the zero-length range first. For example, use bitsadmin /addfilewithranges j2 http://bitsdc/dload/1k.zip c:\1k.zip 100:5,100:0

Examples

To transfer 100 bytes from offset 0, 100 bytes from offset 2000, and the remaining bytes from offset 5000 to the end of the file:

bitsadmin /addfilewithranges http://downloadsrv/10mb.zip c:\10mb.zip 0:100,2000:100,5000:eof