My life et al. » scp http://florian-feldhaus.de Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:09:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-RC2 Resume (secure) copy http://phacker.org/2010/02/11/resume-secure-copy/ http://phacker.org/2010/02/11/resume-secure-copy/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:36:43 +0000 ffeldhaus http://phacker.org/?p=297 Continue reading → Continue reading →]]> If you need to transfer big files, sometimes the network connection breaks down and you need to restart the transfer. Using the following command, you can start and resume (!) a file transfer:

rsync --partial --progress --rsh=ssh localFile username@remoteMachine:remoteDirectory/

If you generally want to use the above command add the following line to your ~/.bashrc and just use the new scpresume command:

alias scpresume="rsync --partial --progress --rsh=ssh

Many thanks to Joen.dk who came up with the idea!

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