Re: [gentoo-user] Copying root to SSD in one go...a good idea...or?

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
>
> ...I just wanted to check, whether there is water in the pool... :)
>
> I minute ago I found this:
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/203018/interrupting-rsync-with-ctrl-c-should-i-use-partial-or-append
>
> which rises a question about how to resume an interrypted
> rsync-session.
> It looks like the final answer was not found...
>
> Any additional ideas about that?
> Cheers!
> Meino
>

I have interrupted rsync quite a few times and never had it fail on
resume.  I've tested it to be sure.  I always use the -v and --progress
options so I can watch what it is doing.  If I restart it, it picks up
right where it left off, if no other files have changed since I stopped
it.  On occasion Seamonkey or Firefox will write to a file and it
catches those too but it updates the file it was stopped on and either
completes it or updates it one.  I don't know about the technical answer
but that's my experience with it. 

Another thing, if you do have to stop it and feel the need, rerun it
with a complete run afterwords to let it double check.  If nothing
changes, you should be fine.  Using du to check data sizes may help to,
although sometimes different file systems can change those. 

Just a couple thoughts. 

Dale

:-)  :-)