Dolphin file copy question

[James Colby]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at arcor.de> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Sounds like we have a consensus.  :)  I've always been a little intimidated
by rsync but I guess now is the time to man up (man rsync)  </end bad pun>

Thanks!!!
James
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