execute a parallel rsync with xargs for large data transfers

xargsync.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Parallel rsync script originally designed for rsyncing 
# large ata transfers from RAID to RAID for the Aagaard Lab. 
# Author: Michael Jochum
# Location: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
# Contact : michael.jochum@bcm.edu
# Date : 2 November 2020

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#Step 0: fill this shit out
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#source directory path wehere you are currently located
SRC=$PWD;
#destination servername@10.ip.address:/path/to/your/dest/dir
DEST="/path/to/dest/dir" 
#number of simultaneous rsync connections
#dont be stupid about this or it will be slower than 1 rsync
CON=10
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#Step 1 change into the source dir 
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cd $SRC;
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#Step 1 execute rsync with xargs
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#Step 2 	#execute this command
ls $SRC |xargs -n1 -P$CON -I% rsync -Pa % $DEST