On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Michael D. Berger <m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com> wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:49:29 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > [...] >> >> Good question. I don't have a hard rule of thumb, but I'd estimate that >> any one file that takes more than 10 minutes to transfer is too big. So >> transferring CD images over a high bandwidth local connection at 1 >> MByte/second, sure, no problem! But for DSL that may have only 80 >> KB/second, 80 KB/second * 60 seconds/minute * 10 minutes = 48 Meg. So >> splitting a CD down to lumps of of, say, 50 Megs seems reasonable. >> > [...] > > The file I was having trouble with was a tar file of a complex > directory tree containing mostly jpg files under 15M in size. > So instead I did rsync -rv on the unpacked directory tree, and it > worked just fine. PROBLEM SOLVED. Good for you. Next time, use "rsync -avH". "-H" preserves hardlinks, "-a" preserves lots of other useful characteristics, such as symlinks and full ownership and permissions.