It took 2 more hours than it should have to copy 125GB

      • bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Heck to the yeah. I usually run

        rsync -av src/ dst/

        Which is verbose and archive mode (keeps mod times, user, etc). You can also add -P for progress.

        Here is the man page https://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync

        If it gets interrupted, just run that same command again.

        Edit: also it’s usually preinstalled on every Linux distro and should be easy to install for Windows too.

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          1 year ago

          I like to add --ignore-existing to it aswell in case it gets interrupted. Useful when it’s a timed backup or similar

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              Rsync checks the files and only issues the copy if the file size/modified dates are different by default. Ignore existing will not overwrite a changed file afaik.

              If the file is large it only sends the changed blocks (e.g. you have a 100gb database and only a dozen 4mb blocks have been modified it won’t send the full 100gb across the network)