[Gllug] Transferring large files at specified times

John Winters john at sinodun.org.uk
Wed Apr 6 10:45:52 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 11:36 +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 11:34 +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> 
> > Put it on a USB stick. Pop it in the post.
> Would be a big USB key... Need coffee.

I have an 80G USB drive which I use for a similar purpose.

If you're using rsync, make sure you specify the --partial option (and
quite possibly the --partial-dir one) because by default it deletes
partial files if interrupted mid-job, which would be very irritating in
your case.

Cheers,
John

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