retransfer fail of large files with inplace and broken pipe

[Tom]

Hi,

retransfer of large fail with inplace after a broken pipe is working now.
(thx again to wayne)

but it is much more slow as if a "normal" rsync job.

I have read that setting the --backup option could help. (have not tried it
yet)

But --backup option would halve the space, which is not desirable.

Is there a way to tell rsync to delete the --backup file after an successful
sync.

thx
Tom


"tom raschel" <raschel at edvantice.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:loom.20091213T075221-530 at post.gmane.org...
> Hi,
>
> i have to tranfer large files each 5-100 GB (mo-fri) over dsl line.
> unfortunately dsl lines are often not very stable and i got a broken pipe 
> error.
> (dsl lines are getting a new ip if they are broken or at least after a
> reconnect every 24 hours)
>
> i had a script which detect the rsync error and restart the transmission.
> this means that if a file has transfered e.g. 80 % i start again from 
> beginning.
>
> using partial and partial-dir was no solution to resync because rsync cut 
> the
> original file (e.g. from 20 GB to 15 GB) which means that i have to 
> transfer
> the whole rest of 5 GB.
>
> so i had a look at --inplace which I thougt could do the trick, but 
> inplace is
> updating the timestamp and if the script start a retransfer after a broken 
> pipe
> it fails because the --inplace file is newer than the original file of the
> sender.
>
> using ignore-times could be a solution but slow down the whole process to 
> much.
>
> is there a option to tell rsync not to change the time of a --inplace
> transfered file, or maybe preserve the mtime and do a comparison of mtime
> instead of ctime.
>
> Thx
> Tom
>
>
>
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