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Resume recursive scp transfer (with rsync?)

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Mar 15, 20268863 views
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Problem

I was transferring several thousand files each ~1MB via scp and my connection was broken after the first 2k files or so. I wanted to know if there was a way to resume the recursive transfer w/o starting over. Something like The problem is I can't seem to get the syntax correct if it is possible. Ca…

Error Output

$ scp -r me@host.com:/datafiles/ ./
... Happy Transfer ...
...     BREAK!     ...
$ rsync -P me@host.com:/datafiles/ ./
... Continue transf...

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The following line should do the trick for that: rsync --partial --progress --rsh=ssh -r me@host.com:/datafiles/ ./ I've never used this for recursive directories before, but when I texted it just now it seemed to work as expected.

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