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Automatically resume rsync over SSH after broken connection
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perpetual-rsync.sh
#!/bin/bash
while [ 1 ]
do
rsync -avz --partial source dest
if [ "$?" = "0" ] ; then
echo "rsync completed normally"
exit
else
echo "Rsync failure. Backing off and retrying..."
sleep 180
fi
done
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dhval commented Jan 24, 2015

while ! rysnc <…> ;do sleep 180; done

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sunk818 commented Apr 20, 2016

What is rsync is running but the transfer has stopped for some reason but rsync has not exited?

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