Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20 2011, Paul Hartman wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>   Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file
>>> into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then
>>> use cat to reassemble?
>>
>> I think it should work just fine. I've split huge files into huge
>> chunks and never had any issues.
>>
>>>   Is there some better way to do this?
>>
>> I wonder if splitting is even necessary; rsync will analyze the file
>> and only transmit the differences, right?. So I'd think that even if
>> the transfer fails, a retry would pick up where it left off (assuming
>> rsync keeps the failed copy).
>
> I believe that is the --partial option.
>
> allan

Yes, that looks like what I want.

Is there an option to have rsync keep trying if the other end goes
down for a while or would I need to put the rsync command into a cron
job so that it restarts every hour until it's completed the transfers?
I don't see one scanning through the many, many options to rsync.

Thanks,
Mark