[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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