Re: Partial transferred files useless at resume, compare-dir can help ?

2006-06-13 Thread Constantin Teodorescu
Matt McCutchen wrote: On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 00:21 +0300, Constantin Teodorescu wrote: This is EXACTLY what I wanted , and tried for the first time , like in the manual but no ... it's behaviour is not changed at all ! :-( I tested --partial-dir on my computer, and when I kill

Re: Partial transferred files useless at resume, compare-dir can help ?

2006-06-13 Thread Constantin Teodorescu
Matt McCutchen wrote: No, but --partial-dir does exactly what you want. Use something like --partial-dir=.rsync-partial. When the receiving rsync dies, it will create a directory .rsync-partial and move the partial file from .mydb-dump.sql.bz2.MkVSHy to .rsync-partial/mydb-dumb.sql.bz2. It

Re: Partial transferred files useless at resume, compare-dir can help ?

2006-06-13 Thread Constantin Teodorescu
Matt McCutchen wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:00 +0300, Constantin Teodorescu wrote: I heard about the --partial option in order to keep the partial transferred file. I thought that rsync will apply his incremental check and update alghoritm on that partial file and resume the transfer

Partial transferred files useless at resume, compare-dir can help ?

2006-06-13 Thread Constantin Teodorescu
So, my use case is : 1. lot of connections over dial-up lines 2. need to transfer safely A SINGLE BZIPPED FILE to the server 3. if dial-up line fails, it's automatically restarted after 5 minutes and transfer start again I heard about the --partial option in order to keep the partial transfe