I've used 'cp -u' for a similar problem (where I really am updating parallel --backup-- directories of huge graphics files). Mark Hansel On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, 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. > - - : 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
