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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to copy very large directory trees Post 302729953 by siegfried on Monday 12th of November 2012 02:51:06 AM

11-12-2012

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How does --partial work?

How do I get the restart feature?
I tried the little script at linux - Resume rsync over SSH after broken connection? - Super User
and it seemed to work fine on a small directory.

Do I need to install the rsync deamon to have the automatic restart feature?
I think not -- but I'm not sure.

Does the --partial flag mean that if we previously rebooted in the middle of a transfer and we are executing this again, it will continue where it left off in the source directory? After reading the documentation, it does not look to me like "--partial" refers to partially copied directories but rather partially copied files.

Is there a way to tell rsync to only copy the files in the source directory that have not been correctly copied to the destination yet (because we were previously interrupted with a reboot)?

Thanks!
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sync

SYNC(8) 						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						   SYNC(8)

NAME

     sync -- force completion of pending disk writes (flush cache)

SYNOPSIS

     sync

DESCRIPTION

     The sync utility can be called to ensure that all disk writes have been completed before the processor is halted in a way not suitably done
     by reboot(8) or halt(8).  Generally, it is preferable to use reboot(8) or halt(8) to shut down the system, as they may perform additional
     actions such as resynchronizing the hardware clock and flushing internal caches before performing a final sync.

     The sync utility utilizes the sync(2) function call.

SEE ALSO

     fsync(2), sync(2), syncer(4), halt(8), reboot(8)

HISTORY

     A sync utility appeared in Version 4 AT&T UNIX.

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								   May 31, 1993 							       BSD