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Transfer a large collection of files between two hosts
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Rsync Wrapper

If you wish to transfer a large number of big files between two hosts and have had issues with rsync stability in the past. Then just call it with these arguments and also wrapped in a nice retry loop:

RC=1; while [[ $RC -ne 0 ]]; do rsync -avP --progress local/ remote.server:/somewhere; RC=$?; sleep 1; done
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