Hello everyone,

I often use robocopy.exe to copy data on windows system:

robocopy Source_folder Destination_folder /W:5 /R:2 /MIR

With 2 options /W:1 and /R:1: If a file can't copy, robocopy will retry to copy 2 times (default is 1 million of retries) . Wait time between retries is 5 seconds.

Can I set these options with RSYNC command on Linux?. I've view "man rsync", but I am not clear to use. Could anyone show me? Thank you!

Have a look at Simple, Secure Backups for Linux with rsync

basically, it's rysnc <source> <destination>:/path/to/save
There are 100s of options as you will soon see. None, In My Opinion, there is no "best" or "fastest" as conditions such as environment, throughput, memory, filesize all have a contributing affect on the job.

As for retries, never seen that and I'm pretty sure that rsync has some internal mechanism for assessing latent file write operations. Others here may have insight to that.
I do know that rsync uses hashes at both ends to determine if the file got written correctly.

hope that helps.

Wonder if you could use wget or curl.

Thank you, Habitual & Jefro.

Sorry we didn't come up with a good solution. Robocopy is a good program.