I have setup a cron job to rsync files between two servers every hour.
30 * * * * rsync -avz --delete rsyncsrv1::ftp/ /export/ftp/
This works fine most of the time, but if I have a very large file that needs to be transfered ( many tens of MBs), I run into a problem. Since the link between my two servers is slow, it can take more than an hour to complete the rsync transfer. So at the end of the hour, when the next rsync job is started by cron, the big file transfer gets aborted and a new transfer is started. Due to this the big file transfer never gets completed.
I have tried to increase the time between successive cron jobs, but that is only a temporary fix untill I run into an even bigger file which causes the new settings to fail. Is there a way I can control this behaviour, and avoid this looping ?
Thanks & regards,
-- Derric Lewis CAD/System Administrator Virtual IP Group, Inc.
