Rsync deletion issue on failure
Matt McCutchen
matt at mattmccutchen.net
Wed Nov 25 23:06:51 MST 2009
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 23:03 -0700, Adam Gordon wrote:
> I didn't see this in the man page or after a cursory Google search.
>
> I'm rsync-ing a file from computer A to computer B and the file does
> not exist yet on computer B. My problem is that on a shoddy Internet
> connection, if rsync fails due to a connection error, the dot file it
> creates on computer B is deleted and I have to start the rsync all
> over from the beginning.
>
> Is there a way to tell rsync to NOT delete this dot file and pick up
> where it left off after failing? I was in the middle of a 2-hour/2GB
> xfer and the connection died w/ 10MB left.
You want --partial or --partial-dir.
--
Matt
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