On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 19:52 +0200, Tim Newsome wrote: > I'm currently in Egypt, and my Internet connection goes up and down a > lot. rsync --partial --timeout is great, especially when combined with a > little script that checks whether it failed due to timeout, and in that > case starts the transfer up again. I think it would be a good feature > for rsync to support itself. Something like: > --auto-restart > When a timeout occurs, automatically restart the transfer.
IMO, automatic restarting would be too messy to implement inside rsync. It could be done by a shell script, which could be distributed with rsync in the support/ dir. Matt -- 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
