rsync to retry if copy failed - possible?

Eberhard Moenkeberg emoenke at gwdg.de
Sat Dec 11 20:31:27 GMT 2004


Hi,

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:

> I want to be 100% sure that rsync copies something from one location to
> another.
> 
> However, I did not see an option which would make rsync retry an operation if
> it failed for whatever reason (network was down when rsync started, or network
> went down during rsync was copying something, connection timed out etc.).
> 
> For example, wget has an option like --tries=number Set number of retries to
> number.  Specify 0 or inf for infinite retrying.
> 
> Is there something similar in rsync? If not, are there any ways to achieve a
> similar behaviour?

rsync has a very differentiated set of return codes.

Cheers -e
-- 
Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)


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