Hi, I have done this with a cron job, only the first time i had to transfer 15GB, but did it first time in the weekend, afterwards, in my situation is only a small amount of data that has to be transfered every night, so every day at 02.00 the rsync starts and stops automaticly within 1-3 hours.
Best Regards Tomas 2009/9/17 Fabian Cenedese <cened...@indel.ch>: > Hi > > I'd like to rsync a large amount of data over a slow connection, > but only during night hours. I couldn't find a parameter that limits > the time that rsync is running, only the timeout on idle time. > I guess the way to go would be to start rsync, get the process > ID and kill the process later on. > > Has anybody already written a bash script that would do something > like that? Are there other ways? I don't want to kill all rsync > processes as there might be other syncs going on. > > Thanks > > bye Fabi > > -- > Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html