Resume rsync file transfers
network | rafacas | (0)
I did not know that rsync had the resume capability till last week when I had to transfer almost 200GB between two servers with no good connection. I think some context is needed here: My company has two servers in two different cities where the backups are stored. There is a daily syncronization between the backup tree between the servers. That is, a cron task that calls a script that basically runs rsync.
Due to the bad connection, I have had to add the -P option to the rsync command so that the command run by the cron task is:
$ rsync ...