How to Make Rsync Actually Continue from Where It Left off?
As a Total Newbie, After Reading Tons of Questions in So and the Documentation Repetitively Several Times, I Came up with This Solution: Rsync -Pavuh...
As a total newbie, after reading tons of questions in SO and the documentation repetitively several times, I came up with this solution:
rsync -Pavuh --append-verify source destination
Where --append-verify flag implies --inplace flag and --inplace flag implies --partial and I only put the -P flag there because I am lazy to write --progress separately.
Yet, when I issue this command, and Ctrl+C it in the middle of a big file, and then re-issue it, after it finishes I see that that big file is left where I cut it off.
The right behaviour should be as per documentation to leave the partially transferred file as-is on cancellation according to the --partial flag (which is done) and then continue to append to it on the second trial according to the --append-verify flag.
How can I make rsync resume from where it was interrupted?
1 Answer
The problem is probably the -u flag. Since the partially transferred file has a newer timestamp it just skips it.
In theory, the -t option should ensure that this does not happen, but my hypothesis is that some (all?) kinds of interruption can leave the partial file with a newer datestamp. I've not tested this.
I don't see any other option there that has any variation on the "skip some files" theme, so it's my best guess.
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