Partial means don't delete the incomplete file. The file is being transferred because it doesn't match. But rsync does delta-transfers so it won't actually transfer the parts that match. It will just verify that they do match.
Unless of course --whole-file.
On 06/24/2016 11:47 AM, McDowell, Blake wrote:
> Hello,
>
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> I’m running rsync -avPhi to move large video files to a remote server.
> Often we have to stop a transfer midway through to push something else
> to the server. My hope was that the -P flag would invoke --partial and
> the transfer would pick-up where it left off. This does not seem to be
> happening. Rather, the transfer starts over from the beginning, erasing
> the partially transferred file.
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> When I redo the transfer my I see this:
>
>>f.st..g.... afc2010039_crhp0026_mv06_concat_Williams_Cecil_J.mov
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>
> I understand what all of that means, but I don't know why it doesn't
> resume the partial transfer.
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> Do I need to change my rsync command to allow it to resume a transfer of
> a partially transferred file?
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> Thanks,
>
> Blake
>
>
>
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