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This just happened to me today (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
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It took 2 more hours than it should have to copy 125GB

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[–] 44 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Have you tried rsync?

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Can it resume interrupted writes?

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  • [–] 46 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    Heck to the yeah. I usually run

    rsync -av src/ dst/

    Which is verbose and archive mode (keeps mod times, user, etc). You can also add -P for progress.

    Here is the man page https://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync

    If it gets interrupted, just run that same command again.

    Edit: also it's usually preinstalled on every Linux distro and should be easy to install for Windows too.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I like to add --ignore-existing to it aswell in case it gets interrupted. Useful when it's a timed backup or similar

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    If it doesn’t ignore existing by default, what’s the difference between that and plain old copy?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    Rsync checks the files and only issues the copy if the file size/modified dates are different by default. Ignore existing will not overwrite a changed file afaik.

    If the file is large it only sends the changed blocks (e.g. you have a 100gb database and only a dozen 4mb blocks have been modified it won't send the full 100gb across the network)

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    • [–] 39 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    OP never heard of rsync

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    • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    Time for a new USB cable 😅

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    [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    My condolences.

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    [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    My eternal pain with raspberry pis

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    • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    wifi transfer is superior

    but also struggled with the same: planning on buying female usb a ports to resolder on the motherboard, also male ports for my io peripherals. also humidity is ur enemy, much of my ports are ruined due to corrrosion. run ur ac people!

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    [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    Reminds me of Spin City and Carters dog :)

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