You could try increasing the timeout delay, rather than resume.
rsync will tolerate quite long network dropouts and still carry on.
I have managed to keep an internet transfer of up to 100Gb alive for two
weeks.
I didn't find --partial to be much use for very large scale transfers
due to the very cpu intensive checksum process.
By large scale I have rsync'd several Petabytes of backup files up to
500Gb size over the last five years with good success.
On 29/04/2015 2:49 a.m., Simon Hobson wrote:
As an aside to this, part of the problem I've been having is the transfer
timing out/getting interrupted during a particular large file (1G, new file,
2-3 hours if it works).
So I've been experimenting with --partial and --partial-dir=.rsync-partial
which weren't working. It appears to work at first - if the transfer is
interrupted, the partial file is correctly saved in the named directory.
Then if I run the script again, it deletes the partial file before starting
again.
I found that I needed to also specify --delete-delay to avoid deleting the
partial file before it's used.
Is this "known", because it isn't implied (as I read it) by the --partial-dir
section in the man page ?
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