What can I do about rsync of large files killing my laptop's wifi connection
- by David Dean
When I run a rsync to backup my home folder over the network like so:
rsync -avhz --progress --delete /home/dbdean/ david@tv.local:/home/backups/david/
I seem to have problems with my quite large .VirtualBox/HardDisks/Windows XP.vdi file. Occasionally the wifi will silently fail (the transfer stops, and any other network access is broken). If I…