I've written a script that every minute tests to see if the appropriate rsync command is running. If not, it simply runs it again. In that way it effectively

I've written a script that every minute tests to see if the appropriate rsync command is running. If not, it simply runs it again. In that way it effectively restarts and gracefully resumes. This Google search: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=rsync+auto-restart+failed+connection https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=rsync+auto-restart+failed+... returns this link: http://superuser.com/questions/302842/resume-rsync-over-ssh-after-broken-connection http://superuser.com/questions/302842/resume-rsync-over-ssh-... which contains this script: #!/bin/bash while [ 1 ] do rsync -avz --partial source dest if [ "$?" = "0" ] ; then echo "rsync completed normally" exit else echo "Rsync failure. Backing off and retrying..." sleep 180 fi done The comment says: When the connection dies, rsync will quit with a non-zero exit code. This script simply keeps re-running rsync, letting it continue until the synchronisation completes normally. That's pretty much what I've done.