Rsync Auto Resume

[Shane Uys]

That works really well. After retesting, the --partial by itself also works. I must have overlooked it the first time. Is there any option for auto resume? I tried --timeout=1000 but it still terminates after 60s (when the internet drops). Thanks


-----Original Message-----
From: Matt McCutchen [mailto:matt at mattmccutchen.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 5:09 PM
To: Shane Uys
Cc: rsync at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Rsync Auto Resume

On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 13:28 -0500, Shane Uys wrote:
> I am trying to copy a 5GB file over the internet with two Win2003 
> servers. The internet on ServerA occasionally drops the connection and 
> rsync terminates with error “connection reset by peer”.  Is there a 
> way to keep alive, extend timeout or auto resume transfer? I tried 
> using the --partial but it just starts over with another partial.

--partial does allow the receiver to use the already transmitted data in the delta-transfer algorithm on the next run, avoiding the need to send it over the network again, but I guess the disk I/O of rewriting that data to the new temporary file is the problem.  Try --partial --append; the --append option tells rsync to make the (correct) assumption that the destination file left by --partial matches the beginning of the source file and just append to the existing file.

Matt