On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 09:28:18AM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: > >>G'day, [snip] > >cd myfiles > > > >rsync -pavz --delete . 192.168.1.2:/home/alex/myfiles/ can I suggest to look at the S & H options sparse files and hardlinks as well, can save some transferrin time > > > > > >[Copies from the current directory . to the distant directory]. > > > >-pavz - preserves permissions, archive, verbose, will try to compress files in transit if appropriate > > > > > >If you don't have rsync, you can use scp -r to recursively copy almost identically - but the nice thing about > >rsync is that it will restart cleanly, deleting partially copied > >files and preserves an internal manifest of which files are up to > >date. If your 100GB is subject to change in mid transfer, rsync > >will copy only the files which have changed and catch up. > > > >Hope this helps, > > > >All the best, > > > >Andy > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks a lot for your input and the usage examples! > > I've never done anything like that, so I'm open to any suggestions > and am willing to give every piece of advice I am given a try. > > -- union, n.: A dues-paying club workers wield to strike management.
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