On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > 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
Yes, that looks like what I want. Is there an option to have rsync keep trying if the other end goes down for a while or would I need to put the rsync command into a cron job so that it restarts every hour until it's completed the transfers? I don't see one scanning through the many, many options to rsync. Thanks, Mark
