I want to copy the files close to 500 GB from server to my local machine but I have very poor connectivity so the connection breaks in between. Every time when I run scp again, it is copying and overwriting the same set of files again rather than skipping the successfully copied files. However, this way I may not be able to copy the data ever. Please help
1 Answer
Use rsync.
rsync -avr --inplace user@source:/path/ /path/to/detination/
This will copy files, and keep partially written files so that you can resume transfer in middle of a file if it is interrupted for any reason.
