On Mon, Jun 20 2011, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file >> into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then >> use cat to reassemble? > > I think it should work just fine. I've split huge files into huge > chunks and never had any issues. > >> Is there some better way to do this? > > I wonder if splitting is even necessary; rsync will analyze the file > and only transmit the differences, right?. So I'd think that even if > the transfer fails, a retry would pick up where it left off (assuming > rsync keeps the failed copy).
I believe that is the --partial option. allan
