Transfering very large files / and restarting failures
Todd Papaioannou
lucky at luckyspin.org
Wed Jul 27 20:50:39 GMT 2005
Hi,
My situation is that I would like to use rsync to copy very large files
within my network/systems. Specifically, these files are
in the order of 10-100GB. Needless to say, I would like to be able
to restart a transfer if it only partially succeeded, but NOT repeat
the work already done.
Currently, I am initiating the transfer with this command:
rsync --partial --progress theFile /path/to/dest
where both theFile and /path/to/dest are local drives. In the future
/path/to/dest will be an NFS mount.
This succeeds in writing theFile to the destination as bytes flow.
I.e. I get a partial file there, until the full transfer is successful.
Now, say something failed. I want to restart that transfer, and
am trying something like:
rsync -u --no-whole-file --progress theFile /path/to/dest
However, the stats shown during the progress seem to imply that
the whole transfer is starting again.
Can someone help me out with the correct options to ensure that
if I want to restart a copy I can take advantage of the bytes that have
already been transferred?
Many Thanks
Todd
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