This is a problem i have faced many times, and ended up writting some really odd code to reuse. But, most of the time, i found goto to be a fine solution. There will be people who will down vote this because the "dislike" goto, though i would guess they have never used it, and have only read that it is bad.
But, goto does require a moments thought. What i have done is something like the following (untested):

use Getopt::Long;

my $RECOV_STEP = 'FTP_FILE';

my $optre = &GetOptions("-restart=s" => \$RECOV_STEP);

if ($optre == 0) {
    print "Invalid Option Processing\n";
    &usage();
}

eval {
    goto $RECOV_STEP;
};
if ($@) { die "Invalid Recovery Step '$RECOV_STEP'\n" };

FTP_FILE: {
    ### get data
    print "FTP Step Started\n";
};
LOAD_FILE: {
    ### load database with file
    print "Load Step Started\n";
};
CLEANUP: {
    ### archive data
    print "Cleanup Step Started\n";
};

sub usage {
    print "$0 -restart <STEP>\n";
}

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I have worked with production operation groups for some time now, and have found that they seem to prefer named restart "steps" as opposed to numbers. <minirant>While this may be diffrent where you are, unless you want to be the person up as night on the phone telling them the numbers, i suggest named steps and a good document.</minirant>
my own worst enemy
-- MZSanford

In reply to Re: Best method for failure recovery? by MZSanford
in thread Best method for failure recovery? by Maestro_007

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