Re: [Hampshire] Re-enter local bash session from remote

2008/12/23 Alan Pope <alan@???>:
> 2008/12/23 Graeme Hilton <graeme.hilton@???>:
>>>
>>>> Anyway, I forgot about it till now, and I'm at work, and I'd like to
>>>> check
>>>> progress.
>>>
>>> You could attach another terminal, then use ps to find the process in
>>> question and lsof to find out what it's doing...
>>
>> I've been monitoring the progress using "watch -d df". As long as the
>> numbers keep changing on the /usbdisk mount point then things are still
>> copying - but oh so slow!
>>
>> Still got about 10GiB to go out of 20...
>>
>
> Could you not kill it and restart using rsync (in a screen) which
> would then effectively carry on from where it left off. Then you
> really could watch the progress.

Ah, would you not have to wait while rsync figured out what files
had/had not been transferred? That itself involves traffic over the
same slow USB link, and if there are N files I believe it would be
O(N) so if N is large that could itself take quite some time...