[ale] Really slow copy

[Tim Watts]

Thanks folks. The cp completed successfully in about 2.5 hours. And there was 
19GB not 17. Quite pleased. But I'll keep rsync in mind the next time I have 
a big copy to do.


On Monday 16 February 2009 5:19 pm, rs at ale.spam.futz.org wrote:
> >At least if you do the transfer with rsync instead of cp, you can kill
> >and restart the sync and pick up where you left off rather than having
> >to restart a large copy.
> >
> >rsync -avz src dest
>
> That actually won't pick up where you left off.. It will start the last
> file over. use --partial to really be able to pick up where you left off..
> won't matter much on small files, but really helps on big ones...
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