It took 2 more hours than it should have to copy 125GB

Time for a new USB cable 😅

Reminds me of Spin City and Carters dog :)

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My eternal pain with raspberry pis

You mean with the Micro SDs?

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No, the slightest touch on your server power cable and it boots

zoe [none/use name]
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wifi transfer is superior

but also struggled with the same: planning on buying female usb a ports to resolder on the motherboard, also male ports for my io peripherals. also humidity is ur enemy, much of my ports are ruined due to corrrosion. run ur ac people!

My condolences.

Have you tried rsync?

Can it resume interrupted writes?

Heck to the yeah. I usually run

rsync -av src/ dst/

Which is verbose and archive mode (keeps mod times, user, etc). You can also add -P for progress.

Here is the man page https://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync

If it gets interrupted, just run that same command again.

Edit: also it’s usually preinstalled on every Linux distro and should be easy to install for Windows too.

I feel like rsync may genuinely be one of the best, most slept on tools out there. It even works over ssh.

Woah, that’s amazing! Can’t believe I’ve been sleeping on it for so long

By the way, --info=progress2 will show a total progress information.

I like to add --ignore-existing to it aswell in case it gets interrupted. Useful when it’s a timed backup or similar

If it doesn’t ignore existing by default, what’s the difference between that and plain old copy?

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Rsync checks the files and only issues the copy if the file size/modified dates are different by default. Ignore existing will not overwrite a changed file afaik.

If the file is large it only sends the changed blocks (e.g. you have a 100gb database and only a dozen 4mb blocks have been modified it won’t send the full 100gb across the network)

OP never heard of rsync

Dudes over here copying a single 125 GB file

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