Dolphin file copy question

Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de
Thu Sep 22 19:30:03 BST 2011


On 09/22/2011 09:23 PM, James Colby wrote:
> List Members -
>
> I am trying to use dolphin to copy a rather large directory (approx. 22
> Gb. 2000 files, 500 directories) from my laptop to a server using the
> fish:// protocol.  When I first attempted the copy it ran for a few
> hours and then died due to a network disconnect.  Now when I try to do
> the copy again, I am getting an error saying that the directory already
> exists, which is true, as it looks like dolphin created the
> directory structure first, and then starting copying the files.  Does
> anyone know of a way to resume this copy or is it possible to tell
> dolphin to just skip files and directories that already exist at the
> destination?  If this is not possible with dolphin does anyone have a
> suggestion as to a better way to do this copy?

Use rsync.  It was made for exactly this kind of job.

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