Howto resume SCP transfer
From time to time you will end up with an incomplete scp transfer. That gets annoying when the total transfer was high. The solution is to use rsync for resuming like so:
rsync -partial -progress --rsh=ssh user@host:/path/to/remote/file /path/local/file
# short version
rsync -P --rsh=ssh user@host:/path/to/remote/file /path/local/file
# short version
rsync -P --rsh=ssh user@host:/path/to/remote/file /path/local/file
You can also add an alias so you dont have to remember all those flags. Add to your .bashrc or .bash_aliases
alias scpresume="rsync -P --rsh=ssh"
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