On Mon, February 6, 2006 07:28, urgrue wrote: > Anyone know of any trick to make mv/cp support some form of > crash-recovery? > > The problem is, if I'm moving a huge directory/file, and the transfer > fails, there is absolutely no way to continue where I left off. This is > awfully primitive. > > The only way I can think of is to zssh into my own localhost and use > rz/sz, or the same via ftp, but this seems like a pathetic kludge, and > even those dont work very well with large directories full of files. Maybe you want to try cpio? Less likely to fail then mv or cp on large trees. As with mv or cp you skip files that already exist, no need to start over. -- Scott - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
