Rsync Retry – How to Repeatedly Call Rsync Until Success

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I'm trying to syncronize files from a remote server that is not reliable, meaning the connection tends to fail "randomly" with

rsync: connection unexpectedly closed

Rsync is called with –partial, so I'd like to be able to call rsync in a loop until files are fully transfered. There doesn't seem to be a flag to tell rsync to retry.

What would be the best way to script it? A bash for loop?

Best Answer

If you are syncing everything in one sync, call rsync in a loop until rsync gives you a successful return code.

Something like:

RC=1 
while [[ $RC -ne 0 ]]
do
   rsync -a .....   
   RC=$?
done

This will loop, calling rsync, until it gives a return code of 0. You may want to add a sleep in there to keep from DOSing your server.

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