Re: "resume" cp/mv

[urgrue <urgrue@bulbous.org>]

rsync certainly helps with large directories, so thats at least a 
partial solution, but it doesnt resume an interrupted transfer of an 
individual file, does it?

Prosenjit Kundu wrote:
> I have also used 'cp -u'.......but rsync is better match for it.
> 
> PK
> 
> On 2/6/06, hansel@hansel.mnstate.edu <hansel@hansel.mnstate.edu> wrote:
>> I've used 'cp -u' for a similar problem (where I really am updating
>> parallel --backup-- directories of huge graphics files).
>>
>> Mark Hansel
>>
>> On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, urgrue wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone know of any trick to make mv/cp support some form of crash-recovery?
>>>
>>> The problem is, if I'm moving a huge directory/file, and the transfer
>>> fails, there is absolutely no way to continue where I left off. This is
>>> awfully primitive.
>>>
>>> The only way I can think of is to zssh into my own localhost and use
>>> rz/sz, or the same via ftp, but this seems like a pathetic kludge, and
>>> even those dont work very well with large directories full of files.
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