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How to kill rsync gently?

I'm running rsync on a large number of files, and I want to kill the process without leaving any partial files. Is there a way to kill the process gently? I've been looking through the manpages for rsync and kill, but I can't determine if SIGSTOP or SIGTERM will allow rsync to finish its current file before terminating.

Solution

  • From the rsync man page:

    EXIT VALUES
   0      Success
   ...
   20     Received SIGUSR1 or SIGINT
   ...

    so it would seem that either of these signals can be used to stop a transfer.