• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    As I was reading your comment another bonus popped into my head. rsync would be better for resuming an interrupted transfer as opposed to starting over.

    • mingistech@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yes, it’s great when you need to stop and resume. For data migrations between Macs I typically use…

      caffeinate sudo rsync -vaEP

      The flags are:

      • v increases verbosity.
      • a applies archive settings to mirror the source files exactly, including symbolic links and permissions.
      • E copies extended attributes and resource forks (macOS only).
      • P progress provides a count down and transfer statistics during the copy.