Runs rsync, retrying on errors up to a maximum number of tries.

rsync-retry.sh

#!/bin/bash

### ABOUT: See: http://gist.github.com/366269
### Runs rsync, retrying on errors up to a maximum number of tries.
### On failure script waits for internect connection to come back up by pinging google.com before continuing.
###
### Usage: $ ./rsync-retry.sh source destination
### Example: $ ./rsync-retry.sh user@server.example.com:~/* ~/destination/path/
###
### INPORTANT:
### To avoid repeated password requests use public key authentication instead of passwords
### "ssh-keygen" (with no password), then "ssh-copy-id user@server.example.com"

# ----------------------------- rSync Options ------------------------------------------------

OPT="--inplace -vzP"

# -------------------- Shouldn't need to change anything bellow -------------------------------
echo -n "Enter No. of retries to attempt... "
read MAX_RETRIES

echo -n "Recursive flag ON? (y/n) "
read YN
if [[ $YN == "y" || $YN == "Y" ]]; then
	RFLAG=r
fi

COM="rsync $OPT$RFLAG -e 'ssh -o \"ServerAliveInterval 10\"' $1 $2"

echo
echo  "Using command: $COM"

# Trap interrupts and exit instead of continuing the loop
trap "echo Ctl+C Detected... Exiting!; exit;" SIGINT SIGTERM

COUNT=0
START=$SECONDS

# Set the initial exit value to failure
false
while [ $? -ne 0 -a $COUNT -lt $MAX_RETRIES ]; do
	COUNT=$(($COUNT+1))
	if [ $COUNT -ne 1 ]; then
		echo
		echo "Waiting for Internet connection..."
		false
		until [ $? -eq 0 ]; do
			wget -q --tries=10 --timeout=5 http://www.google.com -O /tmp/index.google &> /dev/null
		done
	fi
	echo
	echo "Attempt No. $COUNT / $MAX_RETRIES"
	echo
	## Havn't got the quoting quite right above to just have $COM here.
	#$COM
	rsync -vzP$RFLAG --inplace -e 'ssh -o "ServerAliveInterval 10"' $1 $2
done

FINISH=$SECONDS
if [[ $(($FINISH - $START)) -gt 3600 ]]; then
	ELAPSED="$((($FINISH - $START)/3600))hrs, $(((($FINISH - $START)/60)%60))min, $((($FINISH - $START)%60))sec"
elif [[ $(($FINISH - $START)) -gt 60 ]]; then
	ELAPSED="$(((($FINISH - $START)/60)%60))min, $((($FINISH - $START)%60))sec"
else
	ELAPSED="$(($FINISH - $START))sec"
fi

if [ $COUNT -eq $MAX_RETRIES -a $? -ne 0 ]; then
	echo "Hit maximum number of retries($MAX_RETRIES), giving up. Elapsed time: $ELAPSED"
fi

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
	echo "Finished after $COUNT retries!! Elapsed time: $ELAPSED"
fi

thanks for this! I added default values to my fork here: https://gist.github.com/1317695

Nice work. Still the approach of pinging google makes it useless for many cases. The idea would be to wait for the target machine to be up, not for google.