Comments on: How to Resume Partial File Transfers

By: a

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:24:01 +0000

either the scp example should reverse the source and dest or you should specify which machine you are logged into for each command. clearly in the scp example you are copying a local file to a remote machine, and in the rsync example you appear to be doing the reverse. one would assume you are logged into different machines in each case if one knows the syntax of the commands. but it might not be obvious.

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:24:11 +0000

I thought of coming back here and sharing this info:

If you wish resume downloading of a whole folder with several files, instead of a single file, do this:

rsync -P -avz -e ssh user@host:remote_folder/ local_folder/

or if you’re using a port different from 22:

rsync -P -avz -e “ssh -p $portNumber” user@host:remote_folder/ local_folder/

‘-a’ there is the crucial parameter to be added, ‘-v’ and ‘-z’ are optional. Check man rsync for further info.

Cheers.

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:01:25 +0000

Great tip, thanks!
You could add that if the person is using a non-standard ssh port he should add it like this:

rsync -P -e “ssh -p $portNumber” user@host:remote_file local_file

Including the quotation marks.

By: mobydobius

mobydobius — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:35:26 +0000

yes but shouldnt the order be
‘ssh source dest’ and ‘rsync source dest’.
your ssh example is inconsistent with your rsync example

By: Augusto

Augusto — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:21:36 +0000

Its not reversed, the example synchronizing from a remote computer to a local computer.

By: Lou Klepner

Lou Klepner — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:09:08 +0000

Great tip, though I think you’ve reversed the source/destination of the rsync example.