Jan 312012
When trying to upload a several-gigabyte file over a slow link using rsync, don’t forget to use –inplace! If you don’t, result could be that connection breaks after 15 hours, and transferred part of the file is not there…
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–partial is more likely to be what you want, or that nice shortcut -P
-P is what I tried yesterday – and lost the day. It did not resume on retry.
Well, I’ve been using both
--inplaceand--partial, and I must admit both have always resumed on restart. Probably, something has just gone wrong.Ah, and also, I never upload, I always download. Somehow it makes me feel better
To download instead of upload, need to login over ssh from remote to local (if using rsync-over-ssh as I do) – which is not a good idea if remote is untrusted.