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rysncmight be a faster and more reliable option. It can compress the files for transfer and does checksums after the transfer is completeI used something like this to transfer 12 TB from offsite to onsite with zero failures
You can set up a
screenand let this run in the background all the timeand since op is using kde, they can use a konsole with dolphin to drag and drop
/path/to/hostand/path/to/destinationas well.Thanks for sharing! I’m a pure headless Linux user, so I don’t know much about desktop environments
i'm headless for servers too; but i'm foolish enough to use the x server as my daily driver. lol
Oh, I didn't know that. Neat!
Thanks! Glad to know
rsyncincludes check after transfer, as I've just recently used it to backup everything on these drives to another hard drive that will not always be spinning. But I did not consider using it to transfer new media onto these hard drives.I'll try to use it to resync the files that were acting up.
Depending on your file structure, you could probably keep this running all the time so you don’t have to manually intervene in the future
How would I achieve that? With cron?
screenrsyncjob to maintain parity between source and destinationrsyncwill be running in the background until you kill itYou can reattach the screen whenever you want to check on status, change parameters or kill it
I tried to resync now, and had to pass the -c flag to make sure it checked the cheksums to see if they should be updated. Then it worked. Looks like that does not affect the after-transfer checksum check though, so that's good (from documentation):