retrync ("retrying rsync") executes resumable rsync uploading/downloading via SSH with progress over and over until the transfer is complete. First stick your public SSH key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote server. Original version came from http://blog.iangreenleaf.com/2009/03/rsync-and-retrying-until-we-get-it.html

retrync

#!/bin/bash

# Usage: retrync path/to/thing/locally user@host:/path/where/you/want/it/remotely

trap "echo Exited!; exit;" SIGINT SIGTERM
 
false

while [ $? -ne 0 ]
do
 rsync --timeout=10 -P -h -e ssh $1 $2
done